I hold an active Master Scuba Diver Trainer’s Certificate. I have logged over 3000 dives in my lifetime. I also have a 1989 Captains License. For close to ten years of my life, being on a sailboat or under the water was a big part of my daily life.
I hold an active Master Scuba Diver Trainer’s Certificate and have over 3000 logged dives. In 1978, I was lucky enough to travel to Isla Mujeres off the coast of Cancun to do some snorkelling for a few days.…
Cozumel is the largest inhabited island in Mexico and the oldest in the Caribbean group and is located 12 miles off the eastern coast of the mainland (Yucatan Peninsula). A limestone plateau forms the base of the island, which…
Carnivorous and always hungry, sea anemones are not plants, as some people might think, but silent slow-motion predators that will devour any small animal careless enough to stray within reach of their deadly tentacles. Equipped with tiny poisonous harpoons…
I love turtles. I love being able to swim with turtles in the open water. Not particularly large compared to other sea turtles, Hawksbills grow up to about 45 inches in shell length and 150 pounds in weight. While young,…
Queen parrotfish are herbivores that graze the reef, using their beaks to scrape plants and algae from the reef surface. This habit involves ingesting corals and sometimes other animals as well, but they are primarily herbivorous. Through their feeding…
The Flamingo Tongue Snail is a small marine snail that lives on coral reefs in the western Atlantic Ocean. For many years, I wanted to photograph one but never seemed to have my camera with me when I spotted…
The Wreck of The Rhone lies within the Rhone National Park off the western coast of Salt Island in the British Virgin Islands. The area is teeming heavily with marine life and it’s common to see stingrays, turtles, sharks…
A year after Yim and I left Belize, our friends, Stu and Fran, who chartered Two If By Sea, had also left and made their way to the British Virgin Islands, where they established their chartering operation again and…
We met Stu and Fran while managing the Inn at Robert’s Grove in Belize. Yim and I were overseeing the construction of a dive shop and a marina at the resort and we went down one weekend to where all…
A coral polyp is a spineless animal. Coral polyps can be the size of a pinhead while others are larger, sometimes a foot in diameter. One coral branch or mound is covered by thousands of these animals. They are…
