Wow! We have had some website issues behind the scenes so we are very late in getting the Photography Contest rules uploaded onto the web. However, they are here now as well as the 2014 and 2015 photo submissions. So, hopefully you have been taking photos and are planning on … [Read more...]
Travel and Adventure Photography – Nine Hints for Underwater Photographers
In reading Helen Jung’s article, Secrets to Traveling like a Local, I thought about how to apply some of her hints to diving travel photography. We have a lot of the same issues but when you add underwater photography to the mix, it opens a whole new world in travel photography. Here … [Read more...]
Fluorecense Scuba Diving
Music Set to Video of Night Diving [From Kelly Drinnin at the NOAA National Marine Sanctuary] A marine biologist investigating fluorescence in corals took some intriguing night dive video at Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. That video is now couple to a 23-minute music jam … [Read more...]
Santa Is Coming – Scuba Santa in West University 2015
I recently saw a sign on Facebook that said "if you don't believe in Santa, you get underwear" So, I have enough underwear -- so Santa I believe! On November 7, 2015 at 11:00 in the morning, Santa will once again arrive in the City of West University Place to pose for pictures with … [Read more...]
ROV Follows an Elusive Oarfish in the Gulf of Mexico
Scientists accidentally took a video of the elusive oarfish. This video is the best quality and longest video that has ever been shot of an oarfish in its natural habitat. This video also appears to show a parasitic isopod attached to the fish’s dorsal fin. The mysterious oarfish lives … [Read more...]
Rebreather Scuba Diving – Not Just for Technical Divers
Imagine just floating and watching a parrot fish or a grouper in a cleaning station. While you are there, you see the little fish swimming in and out of the gills while small shrimp crawl around on the fish; their claws snapping at unseen items and yet content to continue their work. At … [Read more...]
Too Busy Diving
Open Water Sidmount Divers I am not sure where the summer has gone. We have been busy teaching new students to dive, upgrading the skills of our previous students and traveling. It seems there are never enough hours in the day to get everything done. We want to congratulate our … [Read more...]
Jules Verne
Underwater explorers like me owe a lot to the novelist Jules Verne, who was born 183 years ago. Google honored him with one of their “doodles,” but in that doodle is a clue to Verne’s greatness – it’s an image that reminds you of the electric submarine, the Nautilus, from Twenty Thousand … [Read more...]
