One of the really cool things about doing what I do is having the opportunity to meet kindred spirits all over the world. By “kindred spirits”, I mean people who’ve lived unusual lives and been through extraordinary experiences, and who voluntarily do crazy things on a regular basis.
I met Mark Thorpe a few […]

Perspective is an editorial column I write regularly for FiNS Magazine. This installment is entitled “Black and White”.
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The PDF file is also available as a download from my iTunes podcast.

Not everything I come across underwater is pleasant. On an evening dive at Batu Angus in Lembeh, my dive guide and I ran across what I can only describe as a full-blown invasion of crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci).
As the sun set and we started to surface, I spotted first one, then two, then five, […]

It’s been about a month since I returned from my latest trip to the Lembeh Strait. Since then, I’ve had to travel for non-diving stuff, and I haven’t had much time to go through photos or collect my thoughts. This weekend, I made a concerted effort to catch up, so here’s a belated trip […]

There’s a lot of stupid things in the news these days, but this story must rank in the top 1% of utterly moronic things people do.

I woke up this morning a bit groggy, still recovering from the cumulative exhaustion of being on the road for the past two months or so without a break. Facing an unreasonable mountain of work, I did the only reasonable thing possible: procrastinate.
So I took a quick look at my website data, and stumbled […]

This is an editorial article titled You Are What You Eat plus an article titled An Encounter with the Mantis Shrimp, both of which I contributed to ultraMARINE magazine, a bi-monthly publication in the UK for aquarists.
The cover image on the left is mine too. It’s a true clownfish (Amphiprion percula) from Kimbe […]