July, 2024
Kauai, the Garden Island of Hawaii, offers the highest concentration of Green Sea turtles that I’ve ever experienced. It’s also a gateway to Niihau, the remote “Forbidden Island”, where divers go to dive with the endangered Hawaiian Monk seal. The island’s powerful natural beauty also offers much for the outdoor enthusiast to explore.
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June, 2023.
Renowned for having the highest concentration of shipwrecks per mile worldwide, Bermuda has earned a prestigious spot on National Geographic’s list as a must-visit diving destination. It boasts an abundance of 300 relatively shallow wreck sites, vibrant fringing reefs, a unique system of historical forts, and limitless topside activities. Discover why Bermuda deserves a spot on your short-list.
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July, 2021
Guadalupe Island is a well known White shark congregation site, located about 240 km off the coast of Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula. We were one of the first ones to arrive at the biosphere reserve since it was closed due to Covid-19 for nearly a year and a half. Our anticipations were high. Being in the water with the Ocean’s largest predatory fish had been on my bucket list for a long time.
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January, 2019.
East Coast Diving takes all of the elements of the best dives on the West side-where divers normally go-and combines them into an exclusive handful of action-packed dives that are only accessible by boat. You’ll love the thrilling boat rides, great reefs, wall-to-wall sea turtles, and other pelagics.
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March, 2017.
A little over a decade ago it was discovered that Great Hammerhead sharks, particularly females, aggregate at Bimini Island in the Northern Bahamas during the winter months (December-April). Since then Bimini has become a shark diver’s pilgrimage. You’ll get consistent, close-up encounters and long bottom times with these elusive sharks. And you can also expect Nurse sharks to join the mix, and maybe (hopefully) even some Bull sharks.
February, 2017.
Filmmaker, cameraman and shark advocate Rob Stewart tragically lost his life in a diving accident in Florida late last month while filming Sharkwater 2.
I’m honoured to have one of my images selected for Wetpixel’s Rob Stewart “Wall of Sharks” Tribute.
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July 11-13, 2014.
Every year, around the full moon of July, one of the greatest shows on Earth unfolds. Groupers gather by the thousands to spawn in the passes. Of course, all of this activity draws out numerous hungry predators from sharks to smaller fishes.
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July 11-13, 2014
Sometimes to get the best diving you have to go further, endure longer flights, and do without the creature comforts that we all take for granted. Fakarava was that kind of trip. I joined a phototour with Scott Geitler’s Bluewater Photo, specifically to photograph schooling Grey Reef sharks (Part 1). It is reputedly one of the best places in the world to see this. And as a bonus, the timing was chosen to coincide with the annual Grouper spawning event (Part 2). On the second part of the trip, we dove four days at Rangiroa.
While waiting for the ice to melt and our swollen rivers in Southern Ontario to subside to diveable conditions, I was thinking of warmer thoughts like my recent diving trip to Grand Turk. So I used the time to put together a video that I had always planned to do when I could. It shows a range of animal encounters from the big stuff like sharks, moray eels, and barracuda to the smaller things like garden eels and cleaner shrimp, with everything in between.
I like Grand Turk for what it doesn’t have, as much as for what it does have. Along with Little Cayman, its one of my favourite places to dive in the Caribbean.
It has all the modern conveniences, but it still retains a quiet, laid-back appeal from an earlier time. You’ll feel like you’re “getting away from it all” as you walk down Front and Duke streets, just feet away from the beach, among beautifully flowered-bushes, friendly people, and historic British colonial homes. (more…)