The Safety Paradox

Learn about The Safety Paradox: analyzing fatality rates and the importance of safety equipment in closed-circuit rebreather diving.

The mouthpiece retaining strap (MRS) is designed to help prevent rebreather diving fatalities.

The Shifting Sea

The Shifting Sea reveals Mexico’s dynamic wildlife event each autumn. Learn about the sardine run in Baja California Sur.

A marlin accelerates toward a fleeing sardine, hoping to use its bill to stun rather than spear its prey.

From Warship to Reef

Discover the remarkable history of the HMCS Canada, a warship now resting underwater, transformed into a vibrant reef habitat.

Diver Jason Cook illuminates the anchor windlass on the foredeck of HMCS Canada.

Australian Sea Lions

The Australian sea lion (Neophoca cinerea) is the only pinniped endemic to Australia.

Australian Sea Lion sleeping on the kelp

Tools for a Healthy Drysuit

Divers venture into a hostile environment with no breathable air and potentially extreme temperatures. To survive these conditions, dive equipment provides life support and insulates the body, helping regulate its temperature. 

diver in a drysuit

Kelp is the New Coral

Coral and kelp are the ivory and ebony of ecosystems: mirrored opposites. Coral thrives in warm, clear, low-nutrient waters, while kelp lives in cold, nutrient-rich waters that tend to be murky because of those nutrients.

sea otter

Selective Vision

With our finite time and limited light underwater, every image-capture quest is like a treasure hunt. We all have different ideas of what is treasure: It may be marine mammals, shipwrecks, reef corals, or icebergs. I like to go beyond a single underwater subject and look for something more abstract. Pattern, form, and color rule my world.

moon jellies in dark-green Alaskan waters

Thomas Peschak: Destination Amazon

Experience the Amazon like never before with Thomas Peschak. Discover the stories behind Destination Amazon and the river’s significance.

dwarf caiman