Good morning all, our Smithsonian scientists are all leaving us this morning and heading back to the States, we sure will miss them !! Some of them will return in August for another round of collecting in search of new things to share with the whole world while others won’t return for another year or so. I still [...]
Good morning from the windy Caribbean! I figured with all this wind we are having how about a photo showing the effects of strong wind so I found this photo of a Dividivi Tree, Caesalpinia coriaria that we discovered along the road in Bonaire. In Bonaire and Aruba it was believed that a person sleeping under a Dividivi [...]
Hello friends, here is another super cool find by the folks from the Smithsonian who have been using our sub now for a week to search for new deep water creatures. We think this could be “Asterinopsis pilosa” but please don’t quote me on that yet, we or they are in the process of trying [...]
Good morning friends, Here’s something really cool that the scientists from the Smithsonian found this week in the Curasub at around 600 feet. This is a really rare adult and a little baby Perotrochus Gouyanus (Fischer & Bernardi, 1856) that was successfully brought up alive! To our knowledge this is the smallest live slit shell ever found and when I [...]
Good morning. This is the newborn baby of Tela! It is a female, and her new name is Serena. She was born 5 weeks ago, and is doing great. This photo was taken during the first days after she was born. Babies are usually much darker, and will throw their heads up and out of the [...]
Good evening readers, I have something NEW and VERY SPECIAL for you all tonight! This is a rare and possibly new species of Deep Water Hermit Crab. He or she was found by the Curasub living inside a discarded Scaphopoda shell on the sand at around 750 feet!! Is he cute or what?? He uses [...]
Good morning friends, what a busy day yesterday was!! I first did a dive with the sub at around 10:00 and the water was very clear making for some nice pictures! I then hauled all my camera gear over to our wet-lab and photographed rare little deep water creatures found by the Smithsonian group till [...]
Severe Coral Bleaching Before Nov/30/2010 Same Coral Healed, May/10/2012 Good morning friends, I finally found another coral colony that I have been looking for out on our reef, not so easy to find after a year and a half! This is another major success story as this mound or colony of Star Coral was almost [...]
Good Morning from Curacao! Well, this is Lola and I waiting in front of the Curacao airport before our “big flying day’! She was great and here is our little story, written in a note from me to Barry. Hi honey! We have touchdown! Safe and sound, drinking a cup of coffee with [...]
Good morning my faithful readers, how are you all today?? I just got word that Aimee was up at 3:30 this morning and on her way back to Curacao, talk about a woman with a story to tell!! Your photo today comes straight from the website of the makers of the finest underwater housings in [...]