Roaming the Sand Biome at Night: The Spanish Dancer, Anemone Hermit Crab and the Bristle Worm
Give divers the option of exploring a sandy bottom or a reef and the near unanimous choice will be a reef. In fact, both…
More Good Than Harm
In order to get this shot of a bigfin squid while on a night dive in Puerto Galera in the Philippines, my dive buddy…
Strobe Positioning to Avoid the Sandstorm
Wow! What a moment and what an opportunity. Those are the thoughts that went through my head the instant I saw this female peacock…
Shining Some Light On Your Light Meter
The image shown here can accurately be described as a pleasing seascape, one that shares a scene representative of the setting in many Indo-Pacific…
High On Contrast
In my early days as an underwater photographer I asked an experienced photographer if he ever created his images in black and white instead…
Giving Voice to Passion: On Writing From the Heart
“My name is Marty Snyderman, and I am a writer.” Like everyone else in the writers’ seminar I was participating in, that is the…
I Want to Be Like Chuck: On Following a Great Example
In the spring of 1975 I had just graduated from the now-defunct NASDS diving instructor college in San Diego, but I had no idea…
I Could Go On and On…On Being Better Divers
The conditions were perfect. With no moon in sight and a crystal-clear sky, the stars appeared to be exceptionally bright. And the water at…
Cancun, Mexico: Exploring the Yucatan
The first time I visited the east coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula was in the early 1970s. At that time the region was best…
KAUAI: Hawaii’s Garden Isle
There are a lot of places in the world that have plenty of sunshine, lush vegetation, isolated beaches and inviting water, but of those,…