For land-bound divers like myself, bridges can provide some of the most interesting dive sites, especially if you live in a coastal area that isn’t endowed with natural rock formations. If you can find a bridge with legal parking and water access, that’s close enough to an ocean inlet for [...]
On my recent trip to the Mediterranean I was able to witness the effect this year’s abnormally high temperatures have had on the region’s gorgonians.One of the most interesting and downright attractive of the Med’s ecosystems is the deep rocky reefs dominated by the gorgonian [...]
I’ve been sharing a few images of fish from a recent trip to the Mediterranean, but thought I’d take a break and share some images of anemones from this fascinating and often overlooked region.The animal in the main image above is a Dahlia Anemone (Cribinopsis crassa). Not to be [...]
I just shared a post featuring basket stars, so I thought I’d share some images of their relatives, the featherstars, from a few locations round the world. I’ve spent many a dive watching featherstars moving in the current, their delicate arms deployed to catch as [...]
I recently had the pleasure of seeing a diver come across their first basket star. I was in the southern Red Sea on a night dive on a shallow off-shore reef. We were finning along through a series of coral pinnacles and bommies looking for the night-time critters that make this sort of diving [...]
I think most everyday folk have a very limited concept of what worms are. In the UK they’re the unattractive, albeit useful, crawly things that starlings spend their days dragging out of lawns. Nothing to really get excited about in most cases. Underwater folk recognize that there are some worms [...]
I came across this piece of research news in my news feed a few days back. It seems some species of coral actively team up to capture jellyfish prey.The coral Astroides calycularis, a bright orange species found in Mediterranean caves, was observed in caves off Sicily by researchers. The [...]
The local guides know this spot as ‘The Nemos’ and while it might upset pedants like me, the fact that this patch of anemones was so well known on the reef – in fact it was one of the reef’s highlights and featured on all the dive briefings – proves how enduringly popular these [...]