Marine LifeMarine Life Identification Bat Rays One fine summer day years ago, a friend and I took a small boat to a shallow cove off Anacapa,…Bonnie J. CardoneDecember 13, 2011
Marine LifeMarine Life Identification Thornback Rays I couldn't believe my luck. I had just reached the bottom at 20 feet and was cruising toward the kelp…Bonnie J. CardoneNovember 1, 2011
Marine LifeMarine Life Identification Encounters with Pacific Electric Rays Can Be Shocking — But They Don’t Have to Be Last August, a Pacific electric ray sought out the company of divers on more than one dive on Farnsworth Bank's…Bonnie J. CardoneOctober 13, 2011
Hunting and GatheringMarine LifeMarine Life Identification A Giant (Rock Scallop) Mystery An ex-boyfriend once complained: "I've never met a woman who asked so many questions!" At the time, of course, he…Bonnie J. CardoneJuly 21, 2011
Marine LifeMarine Life Identification Jewels of the Sea: California?s Most Photogenic Sea Shells In the early years of my diving career I collected shells (a long time ago). That stopped when I learned…Bonnie J. CardoneJuly 1, 2010
Imaging The Joys of Point and Shoot Digital Underwater I’d have no photos at all if my expensive digital SLR malfunctioned during a trip to Alaska last year so…Bonnie J. CardoneDecember 22, 2008
Marine LifeMarine Life Identification San Clemente’s Mystery Critter When you've been diving as long as I have (31 years) you may think you've seen it all. Then something…Bonnie J. CardoneDecember 9, 2008
Marine LifeMarine Life Identification A Kelp Primer: What You Should Know About Macrocystis pyrifera We are lucky, you and I, that giant kelp (Macrocystis pyrifera), the largest kelp in the world, grows off our…Bonnie J. CardoneDecember 7, 2008
CrustaceansMarine LifeMarine Life Identification The Lifecycle of Spiny Lobsters For many sea creatures parenting is easy; they have little or no contact with their offspring. Take for example, the…Bonnie J. CardoneDecember 5, 2008