This week I’ve been knocked flat by a cold, not to mention by the American election, so I thought I’d try to cheer myself up by posting pretty pictures. Palau is known for the wild diversity of its dives.  You can dive coral walls, caverns, and wrecks.  You can get swept along by surging tides, […]

This is far from the best lionfish photo I’ve seen, but it’s probably the best one I’ve taken, on the stern of the depth charge wreck, described below. For the last four days I’ve been diving the lagoon at Chuuk, formerly known as Truk, in the Federated Republic of Micronesia.  The lagoon is covered with […]

I’ve run a number of mystery plane contests, with my online friends of the Ground Observer Corps never taking longer than about 20 minutes to identify the plane.  So I thought I’d put up a poser. What plane did I find here on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean?  There’s an oval defense blister on […]

It’s always been my ambition to view a manta ray, or devilfish, though luck has always been against me.  One of the best places in the world to see a manta is the German Channel in Palau, a channel in the reef blasted by German engineers in support of their phosphate mining endeavors, back when […]