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Great whites sharks, makos or sailfish, what is the fastest fish?
My only encounters with a great white were on a cage diving trip, many years ago. Two of us at a time would enter the cage and wait, cameras poised. This was around Isla Guadalupe, 250km west of Baja Peninsula, Mexico. … Continue reading
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The Grind. Is campaigning for it to stop or condemning it on social media hypocritical?
The grind, or grindadrap, is a non-commercial, community based whale and dolphin drive in the Faroe Islands. Around 840 pilot whales and white sided dolphins are killed every year. This is done by local boats driving them in to designated … Continue reading
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Tagged dolphin drive, Faroe Islands, grindadrap, pilot whales, Sea Sheherd, the grind, whale drive, whale hunting, whale killing, whaling
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Cornwall’s blue sharks
An account of photographing blue sharks off Cornwall, Southwest Britain, a few years back, and a link to buying fine art prints of these amazing hunters of of the oceans at colinmunroimages.com. On a clear July morning I stumbled out … Continue reading
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Tagged blue sharks, blue sharks off Cornwall, blue sharks UK, blue sharks UK waters, fine art prints, photographing blue sharks, Prionace glauca, shark photographs, shark photography, shark prints
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The extraordinary life cycle of the lion’s mane jellyfish
Jellyfish, or sea jellies as they are now often called (clearly they are not fish) are amongst the most ancient of multi-organ animals. Fossils of jellyfish (or scyphozoans, to give them their scientific name) are found only rarely as they … Continue reading
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Tagged Arran, Atlantic marine life, Atlantic sealife, british marine life, british sea life, Cyanea, Cyanea capillata, jellyfish, lion's mane jelly, lion's mane jellyfish, scottish marine life, scottish sealife, scottish wildlife, scyphozoans, sea jellies, sea jelly, seajellies, seajelly, undersea britain, undersea scotland
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