No I am not about to stop diving with these guys, far from it, I plan on many, many more dives to come. I am imagining however that these may have been the words my camera might have uttered as it captured its last image. Here we are on the east side of Puffin Island, […]
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We were diving very deep to avoid the surge above but even here below 30m we were tossed back and forth making photography tricky. While capturing this edible sea urchin I waited for the leaf like red algae to be pushed down flat by the surge. It never was, I think it had gotten impaled […]
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I’d never really done much RIB (rigid-hull inflatable boat) based diving before coming to Ireland. Back in South Australia, not including an inflatable hull boat I owned in my twenties, I could count my time diving from RIBs on one hand. Almost all of my boat diving was from off-shore equipped rigid fiberglass or aluminium […]
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Another beautiful jellyfish, the crystal jelly (Aequorea victoria), is normally almost perfectly clear but when disturbed it illuminates its outer bell in a blue-green glow using tiny light producing organs. The light producing substance harvested from these guys is aequorin, a calcium-activated photoprotein used in medical research. The crystal jelly is also the very same […]
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Every time time a meet an Irish lobster on a dive I am reminded of our Australian common yabby and childhood memories of catching them in creeks and dams. How different the wild Irish coast is from muddy Australian farm dams and yet how similar these two creatures are in appearance. Given the choice of […]
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