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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Olympus Dive Charters out of Morehead City, North Carolina. Here is a brief account and some video highlights of what turned out to be one of the most memorable dives of my [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 … [...]