Scuba Diving
Welcome to the hub of my underwater adventures. This archive collects my experiences, travel reports, and photography from around the globe, celebrating the incredible world of scuba diving. Whether you are looking for trip inspiration, gear insights, or simply want to explore the ocean’s depths through my lens, you’ll find it all right here.
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Final Dives of 2020
What a weird and challenging year 2020 was for everyone. To wrap it up on a high note, I headed to the Yucatan Peninsula for a change of pace—trading the ocean currents for the still, cathedral-like atmosphere of the Mexican cenotes. I spent my final dives of the year exploring The Pit and Dos Ojos…
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and happiness in the New Year! * The underwater image above was taken in Bonaire by Trent Hebrlee on the morning of December 25, 2015. Hopefully, things will get back to normal in the new year!
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Missing Limb Sea Turtle
A drift dive off Cozumel revealed a resilient sea turtle, highlighting the beauty of life adapting in a healthy reef ecosystem. Cozumel offers excellent diving conditions with warm waters, clear visibility, and abundant marine life, making it ideal for turtle encounters, while Playa del Carmen provides unique seasonal diving experiences.
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Sea Lions Playing with Divers
Here are a few images taken by my friend and photographer Ron Nicolaysen. As you can see below, during the week of diving around the seal lion colony in Mexico, we had some interesting and unprovoked interaction with several sea lions. In case you missed my earlier post. Here are a few underwater video clips…
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A Few Fun Sea Lion Clips From Los Islotes
I dipped down to La Paz, Mexico at the end of November to dive mostly at tiny island called Los Islotes. Los Islotes hosts one of the most famous Sea Lion colonies in Mexico. I’m still working on one complete edit of diving with the sea lions. Below are clips that I have extracted and…
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Scuba Diving the Reefs of Puerto Morelos
Hi! Here’s a short underwater video highlighting the coral reefs of Puerto Morelos, Mexico. We spent several days scuba diving along the reef and one day diving in the Cenotes. The coral reefs are in very good condition and there are a lot of schooling fish. Much more schooling fish then I expected. All footage…
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Diving the Grenada Underwater Sculpture Park
Dive Site Overview: Molinere Bay, Grenada The Molinere Underwater Sculpture Park in Grenada is far more than a simple art installation; it is a living, breathing artificial reef system that has redefined the intersection of art and marine conservation. Nestled within the Molinere Beauséjour Marine Protected Area, this site features over 75 permanent sculptures. These…
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Venomous and Invasive Lionfish
I shot this video off the coast of Puerto Morelos in Mexico. We were diving a shipwreck called the C-53. The shipwreck attracts a lot of sea creatures. One of the underwater creatures the shipwreck hosts is the Red Lionfish. Lionfish are classified as invasive species throughout the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. They…
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Schooling Fish of Puerto Morelos
I never get tired of watching schooling fish on scuba dives. Puerto Morelos sits right on the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef—the largest in the Western Hemisphere and second-largest globally—so “fish storms” are routine here. Expect tight balls of grunts and snappers, shimmering schools of porkfish and spadefish, with jacks and barracuda ghosting the edges. The reef…
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Testing a New Camera Underwater
Breaking in a New Underwater Camera During the pandemic, I decided to invest in a new underwater camera system: the Panasonic GH5 in a Nauticam housing. I’ll get into why I chose this setup in a future post. This was one of the first images I captured with the new rig in Mexico. This Stoplight…