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Marine Life Features

Giants of Gibraltar

Snorkellers in Gibraltar have been enjoying some close encounters with pilot whales this year.

Mention mangroves to most divers and they will immediately think of murky water, impenetrable trees and swarms of mosquitoes. Why would anyone want to go diving in a mangrove forest? Alex Mustard travels to Raja Ampat to find out

Playing tag in the Pacific

In an epic voyage across Mexico’s big fish hotspots, a team of British joint services divers managed to tag an impressive array of sharks. Expedition leader Andy Reid tells the story of Jurassic Shark II

Zombies of the deep?

‘Sluggish, blind and slow-moving’ was the scientific world’s opinion of the Greenland shark – until two Canadian researchers encountered a new group of sharks in the St Lawrence river. Words and photographs by Doug Perrine

Saving the south coast seahorses

As conservationists call for an area of Poole Bay to be set aside for the protection of seahorses, Julie Hatcher reports on efforts to monitor and protect these famously cryptic fish

Sixgills in Seattle

While the northwestern US city sleeps, a unique cage-diving operation is offering midnight encounters with prehistoric deep-water sharks. Words and photographs by Simon Rogerson

Pinniped pals

They are the marine tricksters who love to give divers a tough time, and we adore them for it. The group of marine mammals we call the pinnipeds are among the most efficient hunters in the sea, each having evolved to wreak havoc in its home environment.

Come for the wrecks, stay for the dolphins

The resident dolphins at Abu Nuhas have a habit of turning good dives into great dives. David Lloyd recounts an enthralling dive in the company of the cetacean with the perma-smile

Loving The Aliens

Mythology depicts them as vengeful man-eating monsters that grab whole ships with their fearsome arms and tentacles, but in reality they’re intelligent, inquisitive invertebrates that fascinate and flummox in equal measure.

Striped Red Mullet

The striped red mullet is a rather exotic-looking fish that you might not expect to see around Britain

Tentacles of terror

Just when you thought it was safe... Canadian Derek Holzapfel recounts the time when he came too close for comfort to a real monster of the deep: the giant Pacific octopus

Did you see the manta?

They are possibly the marine creatures that divers love the most, but where do you go for the best manta encounters, and what else is there to see?

Invasion of the Red Army

The red king crab is an environmental menace let loose by a crackpot Stalinist Soviet scheme – and this massive population of spindly crustaceans is slowly munching its way south from the Barents Sea towards the UK.

Sailfish

These are the first astonishing pictures of a seasonal aggregation of sailfish off Mexico’s Caribbean coast. Douglas David Seifert is our man in at the sharp end