Alert Diver Category: Encounters

Diving in Japan exposes divers to colorful sea life and unique experiences. Learn more about diving in Japan.

Noldy Rumengan is a notable underwater critter hunter. Read the story of diving alongside Rumengan and searching for marine life.

OF ALL THE FISHES IN THE SEA THAT ANNA ADORES, blennies perch high atop her favorites list. Her fascination with the tribe of typically small, hole-inhabiting bottom-dwellers …

Japan has excellent diving with marvelous creatures. Read the second part in this series of diving in Japan.

Certain kinds of fish love to open their mouths wide and yawn. It’s quite fascinating! Read more about these yawning fish.

IT HAD BEEN A BUSY WEEK for the fish surveyors aboard the Avalon ll, and things were just beginning to wind down. The Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) team of […]

Male fish exhibit exquisite colors during mating seasons in hopes to attracts mates. Learn more about these colorful and important rituals.

Flasher wrasses are a lesser-known group of fishes to divers because they can be overlooked. The males, for example, tiny, can mute their colors and keep low profiles. Read more about flasher wrasses.

TO FIND THE FIRST DESCRIPTION OF A LARVAL PEARLFISH in the wild, I had to search back to the early 1980s annals of blackwater diving and Christopher Newbert’s account of […]

Read one couple’s story about diving with shrimp, clams and other little critters.