Sperm Whale (Physeter macrocephalus).
While I was in Poland a dead Sperm Whale Physeter macrocephalus was washed into Rikoriko Cave at the Poorknights Marine Reserve, New Zealand. Unconfirmed reports are that the Department of Conservation tried removing it and the skeletal remains are streched over a large distance. Your email:
Seven Days at the Poor Knights Marine Reserve.
Some of the highlights from my first annual Seven-Day trip to the Poor Knights Islands with Quentin Bennett, Andrew Green, Franz Smith and Mary Carney with Ocean Blue Adventures on board their tender Mazurka with Kevin Delonge and Kent Ericksen. Quentin and various dive companions have been doing this trip every year around the same [...]
New Nudibranchs
On my last seven day trip to the Knights, found a few more Nudi’s I have not seen before. Your email:
Chromodoris aureomarginata
If you are out at the Knights keep an eye out for these little Nocturnal Nudibranch’s seems to be allot around at the moment during the day around The Great Wall. Your email:
First Dives of a New Decade
Major goal for 2010 : One Hundred Quality Hours on Rebreather. 13 Down 87 to Go.
Deep Sea Explorer
First Published in the New Zealand Herald Canvas Magazine. Saturday 12 September 2009 By Greg Dixon. Copyright New Zealand Herald © 2009. In the deep blue of the Aegean’s fast-running Kea Channel lies one of Auckland diver Pete Mesley’s deams. The ghostly wreck of a leviathan rests there, her 53,000-tonne body torn in two, her [...]
