Derek Keats: Blog

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Diving, underwater and intertidal

Posts related to SCUBA diving, underwater photography, and marine life including life in the intertidal zones.

Rangiroa — Arthur C. Clarke wrote “How inappropriate to call this planet ‘Earth’ when it is quite clearly ‘Ocean’.” I have been lucky that during my days as a marine biologist I got to travel around and explore this planet called Ocean, and even find and describe some new species from our […]

How inappropriate to call this planet ‘Earth’ when it is ...

16th July 2017 in Diving, underwater and intertidal / The natural world tagged marine life / oceans by Derek Keats

Wrymouth — Ghost fish seemed an appropriate name the first time I saw one, For a fleeting second, in the light of my diving lamp; a whitish spotted head protruding from the mud disappeared as it swallowed up by the sea floor itself. Closer inspection revealed a 10 cm diameter hole in […]

The wrymouth a ghost of a fish

6th October 2016 in Diving, underwater and intertidal / The natural world tagged diving / fish / ghostfish / ichthyology / muddy bottom / Newfoundland / research opportunity / strange creatures / Terra Nova National Park / wrymouth by Derek Keats

This article was published in Diver magazine in 1990. In the sky there is only one moon, but the sea can be packed full of small gently-drifting moons, among which the neutrally buoyant diver can float like an astronaut of magnificent proportions. These lunar animals are, of course, moon jellies (Aurelia […]

Lunar beauty of the summer seas

18th August 2016 in Diving, underwater and intertidal / The natural world tagged diving / moon jelly / nature / underwater by Derek Keats