Posts in category Environment

If you’re considering a shore dive along the coast of Orange County, you might want to wait a day or two. Due to runoff from the recent rains, the Ocean Water …

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 …