Posts in category Environment

When you’re a crab, you know that if you see an octopus underwater you better start running. But being out of the water is safe territory, right? Apparently not. This crab …

What is the worth of that exhilarating moment on a dive where you find yourself staring into the eye of a 500lb fish? Researchers at UC Santa Barbara are trying …

I flew 3,000 miles, dove 70 feet underwater, and was now face-to-face with nearly a dozen 500 pound bull sharks, known to be among of the oceans most deadly predators. After three days of …

Each winter, dozens of divers from the Pacific Northwest enter the frigid waters of the Puget Sound in search of the elusive Giant Pacific octopus. They’re not hunting them for …

It is cold here. The thin light somehow manages to support photosynthesis in the great kelps. The security of the underwater forest becomes a mere shadow far above me. Few …

When was the last time you heard conservationists urge you to go spearfishing? That’s what’s happening in Florida and the Caribbean as the Lionfish, an invasive species native to the …

Back in April 2011, my friend and I were diving off Casino Point on Santa Catalina Island in chilly waters when we looked up and saw four large black fish. …

New Mexico’s Blue Hole is a favorite dive training site for many in the southwestern United States. The cold water spring was formed more than 10,000 years ago and offers …

A new record has been set by a fish living at the deepest place on earth – at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Two University of Hawaii researchers, Jeff Drazen …

Nature doesn’t need people; people need nature. That’s the message of the provocative new ad campaign Nature is Speaking that Conservation International (CI) recently unveiled at SXSW Eco in Austin, Texas. The new series of videos has …