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its hard to emphasise just how poor the eyesight of these eels can be. My pet echidna moray is amazingly slow to find anything that isn't within about 2 inches of her. She can get in the region of it real quick using her sense of smell but finding it takes time and biting other stuff like her...

I agree with Leslie (as usual). For me this is a cast-iron A. caeruleopunctatus: http://www.fishbase.org/summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=13051

to be fair generally patrolling "the coast of east africa" is a bit different to being off zanzibar blasting dolphins...and there are pre-sonar stranding records aplenty as understand it. sometimes things walk like a duck, quack like a duck but turn out to be a small goose with a funny accent...

woah! pretty cool story for the kid to tell at school the next day.

I'm reckon they might all show the same species: Pteraeolidia ianthina - its a really variable species http://www.seaslugforum.net/factsheet.cfm?base=pteriant actually the middle one probably isn't.

There used to be a bit of film kicking round on the web of a Lysiosquillina sp. driving those spears straight through a passing fish. It put me off the spearers even more than the smashers.

If memory serves one or two pregnant males are collected each year and the babies are raised and distributed to other public aquaria. The problem shouldn't be feeding the young as we can now easily feed much smaller seahorses. I believe I read that their spawning dance required a rise...

be enthusiastic - about everything. someone's going on holiday: "awesome", just certified: "brilliant, welcome to diving!" the number one thing that irritates me about dive pros is a lack of enthusiasm. diving for those of us who don't do it as our job is this wonderful privilege that most of...

depends - some species yes, others no. even the safe ones tend to bulldoze more delicate stuff. suggest you try reefcentral.com for questions like this.

I'm probably way off but Bobtail squid?

bbc news report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4940506.stm I just hope there are no further casualties and the injured recover....

Glowsticks have a bit of a chemical cost and are use once only - there are now some fairly cool LED alternatives available eg the one halfway down this page http://www.divernet.com/bubbling/1105justsurfaced.shtml are apparently a multiuse alternative. personally speaking I find constantly...

like this?:D Longimanus liveaboard moored on Elphinstone in Egypt.

if you are diving in a new area and the dm or captain tells you to do something - getting on/off the boat for example - a certain way which is different to how you normally do it and may even seem weird, there is almost certainly a good reason (probably related to the boat or local conditions)...

very very rarely.

what he said. Nadmat you beat me to it.

I agree - my current wing (the apvalves travelwing) is bright red and I love it - can't understand the attraction of a low viz colour like black for open water use (apart from fashion).

looks very interesting - looking forward to hearing more reports. Patrick have you ever considered doing wings in other colours than black?

if you click on identification in the top options bar and fill in the location you can then use keys to identify your fish. you will end up with a load of pictures of similar fish in the same family.

www.fishbase.org - its the daddy.