There are plenty of Hawkfishes across the Indo Pacific and Tropical Western Atlantic. Fishbase recognizes 33 species in the Family Cirrhitidae, which biologically is not a million miles away from the Scorpaenids, which when you’ve seen a few from both groupings, makes a lot of [...]
In my third post in this short series I have some images from a dive off the coast of Cozumel, a charming little Mexican island of the Yucatan Peninsula, that has some great diving, but is in my opinion in danger of being swamped by the vast number of tourists that arrive on the huge cruise ships, [...]
This is the second in a short series of posts that I hope you’ll enjoy which highlights some of the artificial reefs I’ve visited over the past few years. There are many reasons for the creation of artificial reefs, assuming they were created on purpose of course. We all know that [...]
Most readers of this post are likely to be creating artificial reefs of their own, that’s kind of the point I guess. The thing is though, there are a great number of artificial reefs being created in the wild. Here’s one of my favorites. I was lucky enough to visit the Caribbean a [...]
A while ago I posted some images of a species of wonderfully camouflaged Scorpionfish. I thought I’d trawl my images to look for a few other scorpionfish that are somewhat rare and unusual. My first fish is a curious little species (main image) known as Scorpaena maderensis, the Madeiran [...]
The international trade in sharks and their close cousins rays has driven many of them to the brink of extinction. New protection under CITES will offer protection for Wedgefishes, Giant Guitarfishes and Mako Sharks. If you’re unfamiliar with CITES, it stands for the Convention on International [...]
One of the most common corals on some Indo-pacific reefs is not technically a coral at all, but it does a very good job of blending in. Here’s a little about Millepora, the aptly-named Fire Coral. You’d be forgiven for thinking this coral head, complete with a shoal of anthias was [...]
My guidebook to Red Sea fishes says of the Little Dragonfish: ‘Rarely seen, but probably more common than thought’ I tend to agree; it took two of us almost an entire dive to find these two fish, it was worth it though, to see one of the oddest looking fishes I’ve ever seen. [...]