Alert Diver Category: Encounters

I don’t expect to see animals much larger than my thumbnail while I’m drifting on a night dive in the ocean. So I’m surprised when a translucent skirt of tentacles […]

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 […]

In attempt to find larval fishes and invertebrates, two divers attempt to dive at dark. After several foiled attempts and an onslaught of minnows, they were able to find one cephalopod.

Anthias anthias, or the swallowtail sea pearch, is in the grouper family. Two divers were eager to see them in the wild as they are considered the “mother of all Anthias species.”

In response to the declining grouper populations, conservation organizations have paired with local government to spearhead initiatives. Their efforts have worked and populations have grown.