Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea

I’m writing from my suite at the Airways Hotel in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea where I am awaiting my flight home after spending the past two weeks traveling and diving in the Milne Bay area of Papua New Guinea. More…

Thailand

This is not my usual post-trip report. I have no tales to tell of eye to eye encounters with large menacing sharks, and I have relatively few underwater photos to share with you. I returned from my trip to Thailand and the Andaman Sea much earlier than I had anticipated after diving for only a few days before being involved in a serious in-water accident. More…

Neptune Islands, South Australia

When I first learned to dive, nearly twenty years ago, I was very certain that there were two things I had no interest in doing in the water. The first was deep diving. The second was diving with sharks.

Before long, as I became more comfortable in the water, I was routinely diving to depths in excess of one hundred feet. So I guess it was only to be expected when shortly later I became more and more interested in diving with sharks. More…

Raja Ampat, Indonesia

I just returned from another trip to Indonesia; this time to an area called the Raja Ampat Archipelago.

The Raja Ampat archipelago encompasses nearly ten million acres of land and sea off the northwestern tip of Indonesia’s West Papua Province. Raja Ampat means “Four Kings,” and consists of the four large islands of Waigeo, Batanta, Salawati, and Misool, plus hundreds of smaller islands. Located in the so-called Coral Triangle, the heart of the world’s coral reef biodiversity, the seas around Raja Ampat possibly hold the richest variety of species in the world. More…

Revillagigedo Islands, Mexico

I just returned from the Islas de Revillagigedo, off the Pacific coast of Mexico. Located two hundred twenty miles south of Cabo San Lucas at the tip of the Baja Peninsula and more than three hundred fifty miles from the Mexican mainland, the area consists of four volcanic islands; Socorro Island, San Benedicto Island, Clarion Island and Roca Partida.

Due to their isolation from the mainland, these islands are home to a variety of endemic plant and animal species. Below the surface of the surrounding Pacific Ocean, the islands are renowned for their prolific marine life, including giant mantra rays, many shark species, big pelagic fish such as yellowfin tuna and wahoo, and dolphins and humpback whales. More…

Bostwana

When I was a young boy growing up in Michigan, my father owned a large tract of land in the town of Wixom, outside of the Detroit area where we lived. At the rear of this property was a large wetland area, where I spent countless hours getting to know the resident population of frogs, snakes, turtles, crayfish and fish. Today I look back on those hours in “the swamp” with great satisfaction.

Undoubtedly, my hours in the swamp were the origin of my later interest in the ocean, marine life and wildlife in general. And perhaps those hours also have contributed to my fascination with the unique wetland environment of the Okavango Delta, in Botswana, which has become my favorite place to observe and photograph African wildlife. More...

Guadalupe Island, Mexico

I just returned home from Guadalupe Island, Mexico where I spent a few days photographing great white sharks, so I thought I’d tell you about it.

Guadalupe Island lies one hundred fifty miles offshore of the Pacific coast of Mexico, south of San Diego and WNW of Punta Eugenia on the Baja California peninsula. The island is large, ninety-eight square miles in area and twenty-two miles long, and environmentally isolated, since it is surrounded by water as deep as twelve thousand feet between the island and the mainland of Mexico. More...