Bob Fenner – His MACNA Presentations
Sometimes we regret the road not chosen. Today a large number of people in the reef world regret not spending a bit more time with Bob Fenner, a teacher who was... Read more.
Combers: The Grouper Relatives You May Never Have Heard Of
Combers belong to the same group of fish as groupers, the Serranidae, though they reside in a separate genus, Serranus. A group containing around thirty species. As... Read more.
The Red-lipped Goby: A favorite Mediterranean fish
I think a lot of people have a particular liking for gobies, there’s plenty to choose from with around two thousand or so species. Not only are there plenty... Read more.
Red Sea Coral Gardens
I posted a few images, in an earlier posting, showing some large corals colonies I came across on a dive to a very healthy reef in the northern Red Sea. I though... Read more.
Some Huge Red Sea Corals
The sheltered coral gardens of the Red Sea are some of the finest in the world, with excellent growth and usually, equally excellent visibility, making for great... Read more.
An Interesting Red Sea Cave System
On some rare occasions, the natural cracks and swim-throughs that form on a healthy reef see so much growth near the surface, that growth of photosynthetic species... Read more.
Chromis viridis in the Wild
One of the joys of photographing fish in the wild is the chance to see them showing natural behavior ‘en masse’. Not that it is always easy to image... Read more.
Artificial Reefs in the Wild Part 2
It has been a while since I’ve shared these images, so I thought they’d be worth circulating again, this is after all, one of the best small scale reef... Read more.
Is This a Case of Mimicry?
Take a look at this Broomtail wrasse (Cheilinus lunulatus) from the Red Sea and compare it with the Dusky parrotfish (Scarus niger), below. Do you see any similarities?Both... Read more.
It’s Basking Shark Season Again
Over here in the UK shark fans are looking forward to the arrival in our waters of the second largest fish in the sea, the Basking Shark. Surprisingly little is... Read more.