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 | Water Column: Giant appetite
Little enough is known about sperm whales, but as Douglas Seifert found on an expedition to the Ogasawara Islands, even less is known about some of the creatures they feed on - 9/7/10 |
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 | Water Column: Eel appeal
Every diver relishes a decent moray eel sighting, but there’s more to these
predators than meets the eye. Douglas Seifert investigates the secret world of the
moray and the timeless appeal it holds for coral reef divers - 9/7/10 |
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 | Water Column: Dance of the mantas
Baa Atoll in the Maldives is the setting for a seasonal spectacle unlike any other witnessed at any other location in the world. Douglas David Seifert reports on the world’s
greatest manta ray aggregation - 12/1/10 |
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 | British Beasts: Red Bandfish
In my early days of diving there was a well-studied population of a curious red fish that lived in muddy burrows off the east coast of Lundy, in the Bristol Channel – an astonishing 14,000 of them, in fact, in a relatively small area. - 12/1/10 |
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 | Giants of Gibraltar
Snorkellers in Gibraltar have been enjoying some close encounters with pilot whales this year. - 30/11/09 |
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 | Shark attack – the fallout
Egypt’s diving community was left reeling after a woman was attacked and killed by a shark at St John’s reef. Simon Rogerson reports on the circumstances that led to the attack and its implications for diver safety in the region - 5/10/09 |
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 | British Beasts: Football Jersey Worm
The football jersey worm belongs to
a group of worms known as nemerteans, after Nemertes, one of the 50 Nereids (sea nymphs) of Greek mythology. - 4/9/09 |
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 | Water Column: The lure of the frogfish
To find a frogfish on a dive is something of a triumph, as these ambush
specialists are masters of disguise. Douglas David Seifert lifts the lid
on the private life of one of the sea’s most secretive predators - 17/8/09 |
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 | The magic of mangroves
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 - 30/7/09 |
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 | British Beasts: Butterfish
Butterfish are extremely slippery customers, hence their common name; if you have ever tried to catch one by hand, you will know it is almost impossible! - 29/7/09 |
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 | British Beasts: Moon Jellyfish
If you dive regularly in British waters, you can’t fail to notice that jellyfish appear each summer, regular as clockwork, although their numbers vary greatly. - 20/7/09 |
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 | Water Column: Fiji's Bull Sharks
Village communities in Fiji are reaping the rewards of an extraordinary shark dive that has transformed a dead reef into a fish paradise. - 23/6/09 |
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 | Water Column: Lord who?
Douglas David Seifert travels to Lord Howe Island, a remote Australian Pacific outcrop that’s practically unknown to the outside world, but whose diverse marine life and unspoiled environment has earned it a reputation as an exquisite dive spot - 27/5/09 |
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 | British Beasts: Fifteen-spined stickleback
This little fish is one of my favourites.
I usually spot fifteen-spined sticklebacks
in shallow water at the end of a shore
dive, just as I am about to exit through
the weeds - 15/5/09 |
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 | 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 - 14/5/09 |
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 | Water Column: Seeing spots in Mexico
Why do great numbers of adolescent whale sharks appear off an obscure Mexican island each May? Douglas David Seifert jumps into the world’s greenest water and ends up seeing spots before his eyes - 13/5/09 |
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 | British Beasts: Barnacles
The only way the lowly barnacle is going to impress most people is that it has, relatively speaking, the longest penis in the animal kingdom. - 12/5/09 |
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 | Water Column: Water hazard
It was the scene of some of the most intense fighting of the war in the Pacific, but when Douglas David Seifert went diving in the Solomon Islands, he could never have anticipated the battle of nerves that ensued - 17/3/09 |
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 | British Beasts: Spotted and arctic cowries
British cowries are small but beautifully formed. - 13/3/09 |
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 | British Beasts: Black-faced blenny
DIVE's marine biologist writes about the black-faced blenny, which is common at the Canary Islands. - 5/3/09 |
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 | British Beasts: Highland Dancer
I thought this big sea slug didn’t have a common name, but I was delighted to discover that the Seasearch Observer’s Guide to Marine Life of Britain and Ireland and Scottish divers who see it regularly, call it the Highland dancer. - 3/3/09 |
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 | Water Column: A fish like no other
In the second of our new regular feature, our World Editor, Douglas David Seifert, continues his odyssey to document the world’s most fascinating ocean experiences. - 2/3/09 |
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 | British Beasts: Cotton Spinners
Diving on the west side of Skye recently, I was excited to see a big, squidgy, jet-black sea cucumber attached to the sea bed. - 29/1/09 |
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 | Water Column: A sea of milk and caviar
In In the first of a series of reports on the ocean’s greatest spectacles we travel to Belize... - 27/1/09 |
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 | British Beasts: The diminutive Goby
‘Challenge Monty’ took on a whole new meaning. Our six-foot-something ex-marine, specialising in diving worldwide with sharks, Humboldt squid, whales, sunfish and other creatures at least as big as himself, was coming to dive on my house reef. - 13/1/09 |
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 | 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. - 13/1/09 |
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 | 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 - 7/11/08 |
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 | 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. - 4/11/08 |
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 | Striped Red Mullet
The striped red mullet is a rather exotic-looking fish that you might not expect to see around Britain - 6/10/08 |
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 | A shark on the edge
A close relative of the great white, the porbeagle is one of Britain’s most elusive creatures. So elusive, in fact, that shark fanatic
Andy Murch went all the way to Canada to photograph one - 6/10/08 |
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 | British Beasts: Topshells
Topshells are so called because the conical shape of these sea snails typically resembles an old-fashioned spinning top. - 4/9/08 |
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 | 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 - 3/9/08 |
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 | British Beasts: Garfish
The garfish probably gets its common name from the old English word gar, meaning ‘spear’, which describes the fish’s long, narrow and pointed jaws. - 1/8/08 |
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 | British Beasts: Yarrel's Blenny
Blennies are known as ‘fish with character’, and the Yarrell’s blenny is no exception. - 7/7/08 |
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 | 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. - 7/7/08 |
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 | Best of British diving
If you’re looking for exotic, varied diving in a convivial setting with decent beer and good company, you might not need to book a flight this year. - 1/7/08 |
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