Aloha Mai Kakou, Exploring coastlines and finding underwater creatures has been a passion of mine since childhood. Growing up in coastal Florida, I kept what I caught locally in home aquariums before landing my high school job at a burgeoning exotic pet store and eagerly [...]
(Photo by Cpl. Darien Bjorndal 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit) Could something in shark blood help American soldiers detect invisible, dangerous weapons and defeat them? With advanced senses, sharks can hunt their prey by detecting even the tiniest of traces. Just one drop of blood in an [...]
Involving friends and family with your hobby is on the wish list for many. Rewarding as it is, it can be hard for others to understand your passion entirely. Having the support of your significant other goes a long way to make your hobby even more rewarding than it already is. Some [...]
OCHEARCH, an ocean research organization, has discovered a Great White nursery/birthing site in the North Atlantic, off the coast of Montauk, Long Island. Chris Fischer, the founding chairman of Ocearch (the organization behind the development) told CBS News that they had “definitely the [...]
The first time I dived on Raja Ampat’s reefs, I didn’t know where to look first. The profusion of colors and the seeming chaos of the Indonesia reef’s appearance — not a single straight line to be seen — provided a total contrast to the orderly, human-built world we usually inhabit [...]
Ambergris, Sperm Whale vomit Gary and Angela Williams are celebrating after the large, smelly ‘rock’ they found on a Lancashire beach turned out to be something far more valuable. Another Whale’s vomit is another man’s good fortune. The Mirror reports Gary and Angela Williams found a [...]
Curaçao log: My traveling muse Day 3 – October 13, 2015 Tuesday. The sun has set hours ago, casting the sky into a featureless obsidian. But unlike the hapless humans, creatures of the ocean seek solace and comfort in the stars and spotlight, inching their way towards the steel hull of [...]
Curaçao log: My traveling muse Day 2 – October 12, 2015 Monday. I’m writing this log on a ship! The R. V. Chapman. Things got a little bit gung-ho today. Well, a lot gung-ho. Sweet serendipity comes not nearly enough in a lifetime, but when it does, you take it. In retrospect, the [...]