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 I should post a few images showing what a more typical reef scene might look like. I've chosen images...
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 images. On this dive I decided to focus on some of the more massive coral colonies. My first is this...
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 below is severely curtailed and a network of dimly lit cave-like habitats can form. Here are some...
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 though; whilst I may think of myself as a passive observer, the fish consider me a likely predator. I've been trying...
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 creation projects I've witnessed, and, there's a video. I was on a journalism trip to the lovely island of Grenada,...
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 have a very bright and very visible yellow marking just behind the eye and above the pectoral...
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 known about this fish - which can reach ten meters in length -Â which heads up the eastern Atlantic into UK...
With more immediate worries that are somewhat closer to home, this latest report of mass bleaching on the world’s largest reef system has fallen under our ‘news radar’ The reef has suffered its third mass bleaching event in five years. Dr David Wachenfeld, chief...
During these depressing days, I think it is worth sharing a few images to show things people have done, to try to make the world a slightly better place. Here are some images from Mexico's Cozumel Island looking at a few simple artificial reefs. One of the simplest...
A recent study in the journal Current Biology has used historical data on over three hundred marine species to demonstrate a trend towards species abundance declining at the trailing (what the team call equatorward), edge of their range and an increase in abundance at...