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This is my personal blog talking about my scuba diving adventures, with pictures. Also I might comment on local politics, our wedding anniversary, just anything that crosses my mind.
Recent Posts Tagged With 'grotto'
Up Close and Personal With a Little Green Sea Turtle
This is a video I put together of a little Green sea turtle who kept coming up to me playing during my Saturday Grotto dive. He seemed very curious and just coming right up to me, bumping into m...
Saturday In The Grotto
Saturday I got dragged out of bed a little earlier than I probably would have preferred in order to go diving with Brad and a couple of his friends at the Grotto. The truth of the matter is I never c...
Another Grotto Night Dive
This is a polyclad flatworm, not a nudibranch. These are flat and have no rhinopores or gills. They are a fairly common sighting on a night dive in the Grotto, but you'll occasionally see them on day...
Axe Murderer Tours - Booked All Weekend!
I had quite the busy dive weekend this past weekend. I got an e-mail a few weeks ago from my buddy at Stars & Stripes in Japan, Doug Johnson asking if he could book Axe Murderer Tours for a Satur...
Night Dives In The Grotto
This is a guaranteed, can't miss sighting on every single night dive I've ever been on out here. The parrotfish like to find little holes to sleep in. They blow a big mucous bubble around themselves ...
Another Typical Grotto Dive
I do an average of 3 Grotto dives each week, which I think gives me a pretty good idea of what can be found there on any given day. These pics were all taken last weekend and represent things you cou...
Illegal Fishing At The Grotto Continues
On our Saturday morning dive, we spent quite a bit of time untangling fishing line, hooks and homemade sinkers from the coral outside of the Grotto. Some of the pieces of fishing line were well over ...
Diving Deco Stop
I wind up spending quite a bit of time on the rope in the Grotto doing my deco stops. It's a cool spot to just sit there and watch divers come and go, watch the swimmers above you, and occasionally s...
USS Higgins Latest Axe Murderer Tours Victims
This is the USS Higgins which pulled into the Saipan port last Sunday. It is a destroyer with about 380 sailors on board, so it is definitely a boost for the local economy, especially the bars and re...
Axe Murderer Tours Busier Than Ever!
Saipan has been blessed recently with by the visits of several military ships and submarines. Last week we had 3 in port all at the same time. The Saipan Chamber of Commerce has been hosting receptio...
The Dive The Tourists Missed
For about the last month this big red lionfish has been in the same basic area. He's either tucked into a hole or just out floating on the currents. I went out Saturday afternoon with Doug and Robin,...
Sharks View of Swimmers
I usually have to spend quite a bit of time doing decompression stops on the rope when I dive the Grotto, and when you're sitting there for 30-40 minutes there's not much else to do but watch other d...
Looking Out From Under the Coral
If you ever see my truck at a dive site and jump in the water hoping to find me, there is a trick to it. You need to look for the bubbles coming up from under the coral, then keep looking until you f...
Axe Murderer Tours Latest Victim
Now I can totally understand when strangers come here, or macho guys from a navy ship and they go diving with some crazy guy who calls himself Axe Murderer Tours, after all, they don't know any bette...
Halgerda Season in the Grotto
Well it's official, nudibranch season is alive and well in the Grotto. I've been seeing them sporadically for the last few weeks, but this past weekend I found over a dozen of these guys on one dive ...
Live Shells On A Night Dive
One of my favorite things about night diving is that you see so many things that you hardly ever see during the day. Typically live shells like this Tritan's Trumpet are tucked way back into holes an...
Nudibranchs Are Back!
I have absolutely no idea what this is, I'm guessing it's some kind of coral colony, but I've never seen it before. I was outside of the Grotto and went over some of the big boulders that come up alm...
Cypraea Testudinaria - The Pig Cowrie or Tortoise Cowrie
I was swimming through the Grotto on a night dive Sunday looking for nudibranchs when I came across this guy just sitting there right in the open. This is a shell that you don't see very often around...
Night Dives in the Grotto
Night dives are absolutely my favorites, you just see so many different and cool things, and you have the oppportunity to get right up next to fish and take their picture while they're sleeping. This...
More Live Shell Pictures for New Book
This is one of my favorite little shells, they are commonly referred to as being in the chickpea family, because they're about the size of chickpea's. This is a Cypraea Bistronatada and has a golden ...
Turtles, Golden Cowries & Whales!
Even though I had an absolutely awesome time diving in Bali, last weekend rivaled here right here on Saipan. I was cleaning fishing line off the cliff outside of the Grotto last Saturday when I spott...
Saipan's Grotto
Every dive at the Grotto lately and I spend at least a half hour untangling fishing line from coral heads and picking up chunks of rebar, nuts, bolts and old bearings that are being used as sinkers. ...
Virtual Dive
I had so many good dives and took so many awesome pictures that I decided it was time for another virtual dive for you, especially for those of you having to deal with snow and winter right now. I sa...
1 Weekend = 7 dives
I managed to get in 7 dives over the long weekend, 1 on Friday and 2 each on Saturday, Sunday and Monday. I saw turtles, nudibranchs, lionfish, eels and tons of other things, but by far the most impr...
A New Camera & A Weekend Full of Diving!
Everyone's favorite diving dental hygenist, Bev, talked me into going out for a Friday afternoon dive with her. I hadn't had a chance to try my new camera out underwater yet so it didn't take much co...
Turtles, Turtles and More Turtles
Yes, I have been diving. And diving some more, and diving some more. I pretty much live underwater on weekends, and turtles are a big part of the reason why. I just never get tired of swimming with t...
Thanksgiving - Saipan Style
Part of the problem of getting up wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy before the crack of dawn to go to work is that even on your days off, you're still awake by 5 am. So here it was Thanksgiving morning when I should...
Yes, I Still Dive!
I know there has been some speculation as of late that I have given up diving because I haven't posted many dive pics for a while. Pure speculation I assure you, I've been getting wet every weekend, ...
Just Another Day In The Grotto
This nudibranch is called a Halgerda johnsonorum, and this was only the second time I've ever seen one, so I was quite excited when I saw him just sitting in the wide open on a rock. This is the same ...
More Dive Pics
When I got to the Grotto Sunday morning, I was shocked that there were only two divers who were already done with their dive, and the parking lot was empty otherwise. That meant I had the Grotto all t...