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Marine Life

Ninja turtle

Sea turtles are shy, retiring creatures, right? Not always, it seems. Richard Carey encounters an animal with attitude while diving in the Red Sea more...

Nest-building Corkwing

Corkwing wrasse A male corkwing wrasse builds its nest in a crevice. MATTHEW OXLEY found this one going about its labour of love more...

Lions on the loose

The spread of the red lionfish within the Caribbean is said to be an environmental disaster. Tim Ecott looks into why this beautiful predator is now high on a hit-list. Under-water photos by John Bantin more...

The secret lives of Sea Cucumbers

Sea cucumber at spawning time in Indonesia Unassuming Holothurians are diverse, specialised and critical to the world’s oceans, says SARAH CURRAN-RAGAN. Photos by STEPHEN WONG and TAKAKO UNO more...

Those elusive Garden Eels

A garden eel as divers rarely see them - it takes patience Divers see them, the eels duck into their burrows and the divers move on. Unless, that is, they are David & Debi Henshaw. more...

Quest for the Lanternfish

a pelagic bristleworm (Tomopteris helgolandica) Cold winter followed cold winter, but Norwegian diver Rudolf Svensen never gave up on his quest to photograph an elusive deep-dweller.
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Marine Life, General

Playing with fire

Blue Jellyfish, Cyanea lamarckii More divers have been injured by jellyfish than by any other sea creature, according to Big Question. But marine biologist Jamie Watts would rather see us appreciating our gelatinous summer visitors more...

Spring carnival

A male common dragonet Colourful small fish around the UK are preparing for their annual mating rituals, and the patient diver can enjoy the spectacle, says Jonas Andersson
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Sharks

The raggies are coming

A ragged-tooth shark circles inside the Caves Where else can you enjoy world-class shark-diving one moment, and indulge yourself in a coffee shop the next? GAVIN PARSONS gets among the tiger and ragged-tooth sharks, and busts some myths about Protea Banks more...

Tigers & lemons

Who is the fairest of them all? Not everyone approves of this sort of baited diving, but Paul Woodburn was up for some shark-diving thrills on a liveaboard out of Florida more...

UK Files

THE STARFISH FILE

The clean eating machine that refuses to say die - Paul Naylor reports more...

THE JOHN DORY FILE

Never seen a John Dory? You have to catch it sideways on, says Paul Naylor more...

Whales & Dolphins

Filming the ocean giants

The cameraman gets involved in a thrilling humpback heat-run in Hawaii. Divers did well for marine life on TV in 2011, but the most awe-inspiring footage was almost certainly that of the whales and dolphins in the BBC’s Ocean Giants. Assistant producer/director Ellen Husain explains how persistence paid off
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I got the blues for you

Heads and tails - a rare underwater sighting of a pygmy blue whale, in the clear waters off Sri Lanka It might be referred to as a 'pygmy' but at up to 25m long it's one of the most awe-inspiring sights in the sea - Andrew Sutton gets up close to blue whales as well as sperm whales on an unusual Indian Ocean trip
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