When underwater, being able to breathe is essential. If you can breathe you have time to calm down, to think, to make a decision. If you cannot breathe you don’t have that time. Bubbles leaving the diver’s regulator symbolize the incoming and outgoing flow of air that preserves your live underwater. Whether vintage or not, […]
Another fish that is much more than a dish (see Snapper Fish, More Than a Dish). They are so friendly. I remember one making my wife Ivana cuddle it … it squashed itself between her forearm and the bottom. We could not resist laughter to the point water filled our masks. Another one tried to […]
Gem nudibranches (Gem doris, Dendrodoris gemmacea, D. denisoni) look like real living gems. Yet they don’t live in warm clear tropical seas, they are happy with temperate, quite often murky waters. If you live in Auckland, you don’t have to travel far away. Actually you don’t have to travel at all. I usually observe and […]
When I prepare my gear before a dive people often ask me if there is “something” underwater there on the spot. Sometimes I pretend I don’t understand and ask what they mean. They usually mean “something to eat”, a “big fish” or “snapper” (that’s a favourite one) … something suitable for dinner. I cannot see just […]
So much fun with these tiny guys. There are plenty of them in the weed stacks and the submerged railings around the Ti Point Wharf. They are very curious, when I try to photograph them they tend to approach my camera and crawl its housing and lens port. The picture above would benefit from a […]
Kelp forests of Southern Pacific have their smiling face. It’s Eastern Kelpfish Chironemus marmoratus hiding in the shadows of the forest in shallow water. The fish is a bottom dweller, it’s heavier than water, it often sits on the bottom or kelp “leaves”. I usually notice slight movement at the edge of my field of […]