Well I believe Daniel Quinn the author of  “Ishmael:An Adventure Of The Mind And Spirit“  published in 1991 and winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship ,would have explained that  the gorilla has a closer DNA to us humans than a whale. Now the need to have a representative from the animal kingdom very close  to us  in the family tree is I believe [...]

100 Millions sharks are killed every year to either end up in shark fin soup, in lubricant and vitamin A (oil from their liver), and leather. As sharks take a long time to mature to be able to reproduce and only give birth to a very few young at a time,some species are now on the brink of extinction. Sharks [...]

  Not a direct line for monkey business, but rather an album by Bonobo to rock the water world. I bought this album last year and since then it has accompanied my liquid thoughts and truly enhanced my underwater dreams soundtrack bank. Simon Green is the talented British D.J. that hides behind Bonobo and nothing but great baselines and ethnic groovalishious sounds flow out [...]

Not a bus and far away from your average yellow submarine. The Deep Flight Super Falcon is as close to an underwater fighter jet as a sub can be. On the demo video you will find the inventor/engineer Graham Hawkes pulling underwater barrels fast enough to get your mind wonder on what is to come in the next few years as [...]

Last week I took a Freediving class with Martin Stepanek at FII to refresh my knowledge and improve my techniques and skills in breath hold diving. Some fellow student had been spearfishing for a few years ,but never achieved long breath hold. One of them was particularly excited to find out that he could accomplish 5:00 min breath hold in [...]

Unlocking mystery of the deep: Looe Key reef getting a road map A college class is bringing the underwater world of Looe Key to a 3D map that points out places of interest. BY CAMMY CLARK CCLARK@MIAMIHERALD.COM LOOE KEY — Equipped with floating GPS units, side scan sonar and waterproof paper, college students dove 25 feet down into an underwater [...]

Oceana 2008 PSA from Oceana on Vimeo.

I had published a post at the beginning of the year to give you a present for 2009. It unfortnately got lost in the blog move…Might be too late to wish you a happy new year but a calendar is always a good thing to have especially when it makes you dream about the blue! Happy Blue Year! here is [...]

“Look down!”, boat captain Jody Hogan saw them coming from the stern. I am in the water close to the bow,half awake, floating calmly, looking down into the 15 feet vis muddy waters in a top secret corner of Crystal river on the west coast of Florida. I could swear I am hearing mermaid whispers coming from a rock nearby, I soon [...]