Good morning, I have a crazy beautiful, ultra rare deep-sea fish for you today that was found yesterday at around 600 feet! The common name for this little 3 inch jewel is Golden Bass or Liopropoma olneyi.…
Barry Brown
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3-inch Scorpionfish found at 675 Feet by Smithsonian
Elkhorn Coral Polyps
Good morning all, I have a macro shot of the beautiful root-beer colored polyps on an Endangered elkhorn coral that I shot right out in front of the Substation. We have only one live elkhorn on our small reef, it sits clinging to side of a boulder at around 25-30 feet and I see it overtime I head out for a dive with the submersible. …
Siderastrea siderea, Starlet Corals Spawning
Good morning friends, here’s a picture from the first of three nights of coral spawning for the month of September. I completely missed the August spawning but it’s ok, this month is always the best.…
CIEE Bonaire
Good afternoon all, we just finished with the kids from the CIEE Research Station in Bonaire, we had 12 kids total, so we had to do two submersible runs yesterday and one more this morning. CIEE, the “Council on International Educational Exchange” is the country’s oldest and largest nonprofit study abroad and intercultural exchange organization.…
Juvenile Flying Gurnard
Good morning readers of the blog, yesterday when I jumped in the water at Substation on my way out to photograph the sub, I found a tiny little 2-inch flying gurnard in the sand right below our floating platform.…
Caribbean Sea Glass
Good morning friends, I have a Caribbean sea-glass photo for you all today that we shot in Bonaire last week on our two day mini-vacation. Sea glass is a unique thing, it first went from being discarded trash thrown into the sea or on the beach and then “presto” many, many years later it’s now a collected treasure, I wish all trash could be reused like this.…
Dominican Slit-Shells
Good morning friends, I have two rare, deep-sea slit-shells for you all today; our crew found these a few months ago on the island of Dominica with our submersible called the “Curasub” at depths ranging from 350 to 600 feet.…
Ocean Micro-Plastics
Good morning all, as you can see Curacao just got hit with another major wave of floating ocean plastics!! This was caused after a week of strong winds and big waves bringing large amounts of trash to the shores of countless Caribbean islands, not just here.…
Caribbean Reef Octopus on Top of Star Coral
Hi gang, I have an extra beautiful Caribbean reef octopus clinging to a colony of mountainous star coral for you all today that I found late at night on our house reef. The Caribbean reef octopus (Octopus briareus) is a coral reef marine animal.…