Marine LifeMarine Life Identification Naming Names: A Diver’s Guide to Taxonomy As kids most of us learned the common names of many of the plants and animals we encountered in our…Marty SnydermanJuly 20, 2012
Marine LifeMarine Life Identification She Seas Sea Stars: Sea Stars Exposed Lying on or crawling ever so slowly across the bottom, the sea star looks deceptively simple and slightly out of…Bonnie J. CardoneJuly 18, 2012
Marine LifeMarine Life Identification Spiny Skinned and Symmetrical: California’ s Sea Urchins My introduction to sea urchins -- on my first scuba dive -- was a learning experience. I learned how easily…Bonnie J. CardoneJuly 5, 2012
CnidariaMarine LifeMarine Life Identification Aggregating Anemones: Gangsters of the Sea? Imagine what Hollywood would do with a film about anemones. Take aggregating anemones for example. They are relatively small, but…Bonnie J. CardoneApril 26, 2012
FishMarine LifeMarine Life Identification Giant Sea Bass: Are They Really Back From the Brink? My first giant sea bass encounter occurred off San Nicolas Island in the 1970s. I sensed something overhead and looked…Bonnie J. CardoneApril 3, 2012
Marine LifeMarine Life IdentificationSharks & Rays Swell Sharks What can I say? I am a sucker for cute and interesting faces underwater (other than divers, of course). And…Dale ShecklerJanuary 31, 2012
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
ImagingMarine LifeMarine Life Identification Nudis and Branchers Ever see pictures of a critter that seems to have evolved from that box where all the holiday decorations are…Craig HooverNovember 29, 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