In the late nineties of the last century we started diving in Adriatic Sea. For various reasons, mostly financial, our equipment was limited to bare minimum. We were using 7L tanks which we could occasionally buy cheaply as a fire department surplus. We were breathing via the old Czechoslovak regulators Tajfun updated to accommodate the […]

The regulator the diver is breathing from was manufactured in late seventies or early eighties. The piston first stage is of a very good quality, but unfortunately the yoke is too narrow for contemporary pillar valves that combine INT with DIN. It cannot be used with them. However, the second stage has a standard hose […]

Many people think corals live only in tropical seas. As far as I know they live in all seas. Tropical seas are famous for reef-building hard corals. In temperate and cold seas one can find very delicate soft corals in unusually vivid colors. Like the ones on the pictures. Sometimes they can be found in […]

Nothing wrong about having a big mouth 🙂 They are very curious, keen to taste unusual things … like a diver’s fingers or a snorkel. Some individuals even like to be touched gently. We have a funny story from years ago. We met two fish, one of them touched palm of my wife Ivana. The […]

I am not sure if this sea slug, clown nudibranch Ceratosoma amoenum, is common. Last summer we saw many of them on the rocks in very shallow water, perhaps less than one meter deep, in Maitai Bay in Northland. However, I don’t remember seeing them there in previous years. I used to see them regularly […]