I went to get a different shot of the red eggs. While looking for the banded jaw fish I saw a huge banded in a hole and six different pairs of dusky jawfish. I am not sure if they had eggs because one of each pair wouldn’t come out. That area is hot for jawfish at the moment. I also saw a few bumblebee shrimp and a tiny juvenile black scorpion fish. Diane marked 2 baby octos covered by shells in holes. People unknowing remove the bottles which are homes to many critters.. I also saw 2 tiny dragonet’s very playful and travelling around, lots of different size batfish, flying gurnards and a couple of flabellinas. My blue eye banded jawfish was very skittish and I had doubts it was the one that spit for me ... read more

Roatan Dive 16 Yawning hamlet Nikon D200 I spent the dive following my Juv hog fish cleaning different fish. I was diving with the Nikon D200 set up and it took me a few dives to get used to it. But I love it. 32 ft 113min Ni 31% AL80 82oF 10lbs +ank 3mm+Bear 7m Roatan Dive 17 Nikon D200 Arrow Blenny I decided not to waste my time trying to get behavior shots and I headed to the wreck to look for arrow blennies. I had not taken a shot of them yet. I saw 4 of them. I scared 3 before I figured out that I was very aggressive approaching them. When I got to the 4th I approached slowly and let them get used to me. I actually watch them eat some masked ... read more

Steven Kovacs and Judy Townsend let me use these image for the blog to match the story. I decided to do a special post just with them. Two different species of wire coral shrimp. Wow!... read more

Roatan Dive 4. Mary’s Place. Mary’s Place is an amazing deep crack (70 ft) for 200 ft and a little turn to towards the end. Amazing for wide angle silhouette shot of a diver vertical to the wall. I had plan for the wide angle but the buttons were stocked and couldn’t adjust settings. Also I forgot to turn strobes off. I don’t need them for a silhouette. I felt like a complete amateur. DM Marcus promised me to plan a repeat for us and maybe I can get a shot. I put the bad battery in the camera so ..not many photos for me just a few test shots. 80 ft 58min Ni 31% 84oF 12 lbs + ankl 3mm + Bear 7mm Roatan Dive 5. Newman’s Wall. The boat dropped us off at the ... read more

One of the rules of underwater photography is to take a test shot after you set up your gear. Well. I skipped that step and I tested my camera just before the dive to find out that I put an empty battery in it. Very amateur. Lucky there was half empty one in the box of spares in the car and I could take about a 100 shots in my dive. I just had to pick and choose my shots. I headed south just off the parking lot and I saw a school of fish completely messing up the great viz. I dove around the rocks. There was lots of life. Lots of fish everywhere and lots of action. I saw at least 6 of redish seahorses around the same area and 4 of them very ... read more