I was reviewing some images the other day from a trip to the Caribbean... Grenada to be exact, and thought I’d share some of them once more. This set of pictures shows a particularly attractive shipwreck I dived just off the island. Called the Shakem, this small commercial boat was quite [...]
A nice haul of tropical strays from the Morehead City Bridge, including a spotfin butterflyfish, gray angelfish and high hat. 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 [...]
A few weeks ago, while diving on the Route 70 Bridge in Morehead City, NC, a couple of small sea robins caught my eye. I’ve always loved this family (Triglidae) for their enormous, and often brightly-colored pectoral fins as well as their unique behavior of crawling and digging along the [...]
Recently I had the pleasure of diving on the wreck of the Atlas Tanker with [...]
A quick look on Wikipedia, and a few other sites, confirms something I’ve long suspected: Orange Cup Coral really does seem to favor growing on shipwrecks. Here are some examples of wonderful growths from the Arabian Sea. Shipwrecks are amazing. Not only are they history rich, but they [...]
Caves, caverns, and overhangs are some of the most interesting areas to explore on a reef, they also add a huge amount of structural diversity as well as species diversity to the entire reef system. Fake caves, or shipwrecks as they're more commonly known, are also deeply fascinating. Here [...]
I spend a fair amount of time underwater, pointing my camera at one thing or another, with varying degrees of success. Like many divers, I will explore shipwrecks when the opportunity arises, and like most photographers, I seem to have quite a collection of propeller shots. the 120 year [...]
"The godfather of coral", Dr. Charlie Veron, has just released his memoir through Penguin Books, titled A Life Underwater. It's touted as "The extraordinary memoir of marine biologist Charlie Veron, a maverick Australian who transformed our understanding of coral reefs … Exhilaratingly [...]
