There is a diving spot about an hour from my home. It is supposed to be a great place to meet seahorses. I saw pictures from my fellow divers proving the rumour was true. I did many dives there, yet I haven’t seen a seahorse there yet. I saw a pipefish once or twice, but […]

When you ask about nudibranches living in New Zealand, the usual answer mentions Dorises like black, lemon or gem, then clowns, perhaps Jasons and Tambjas. I was so surprised when I was diving in silty Mahurangi Harbour and found a flat reef with these nudibranches crawling on brown weeds. They were everywhere, a couple of […]

This is our compressor, an old but trusty Bauer Capitano from the early seventies. Let me share with you its advantages: It has a petrol engine which gives us independence. That means we can use it wherever we need. We do not have electricity on our property so that flexibility is very important to us. […]

Scuba divers know in temperate waters if the water is clear one must go deeper to find colours. I was quite surprised during my dive near Leigh when I found this cute sponge garden in just 10 metres of water. The sponges were not that big and they covered just a couple of square metres, […]

Found this picture buried somewhere on an old hard drive … I believe it was my first attempt to make a split-level photo. Shot on film, under a medieval bridge over the river Golo, Corsica.