An Interesting Dive Buddy: The Green Sea Turtle
Alternately gliding rather quickly, and then creeping ever so slowly, the octopus made its way across the reef. Hoping to photograph this clever master…
The Reef Builders: Corals
As your diving career progresses you will undoubtedly experience a lot of firsts; the first time you breathe underwater, your first dive trip, encountering…
More Than a Mouthful: How Fishes Use Their Mouths
Better biology professors teach us not just to record what we see when we look at the world around us, but to think about…
Living in the Middle of Nowhere: Creatures of the Sand and Rubble
If you watch a group of scuba divers as they begin a dive, you likely will see them enter the water and make a…
Defense Mechanisms: How Marine Creatures Avoid Predation
In the marine world, one of the fundamental challenges for many creatures is to eat and not get eaten. Early on in life most…
Spiny, Slipper, Regal and Rock: The Secret Lives of Lobsters
Say the word lobster and you will likely get a variety of reactions ranging from kids who smile from thinking about some of their…
Many Arms, Many Feats: The Cephalopods
Imagine what life might be like if you were a sea creature that could squeeze your body through a hole not much larger than…
Underwater Propulsion: A Tale of Tails
After almost every dive someone immediately begins to try to describe a fish they saw. The first questions they are asked in response are…
Strange Relations: A Look at Unlikely Undersea Pairings
After almost every dive someone grabs a reference to try and identify animals they saw. Upon flipping through the book and finding the perfect…
Small Critters With a Big Story to Tell: The Shrimps
Some are extraordinarily colorful and equally animated. Others are drab or transparent and hard to see. Some are active cleaners. Others are scavengers. Some…