Creatures of the deep battle over a tasty soft coral.
Basket star in the background, Orange peel Nudibranch in the foreground, both dinning on a soft coral.
Canon g9, Nikonos strobe, 70 ft. Poriler Pass, the Salish Sea

Swimming Anemone, just chillin in the Salish Sea
Canon G9, Nikonos 105

Winter kayaking on Slocan Lake.

WARMEST BEST WISHES TO EVERYONE FOR A SAFE, HAPPY, PROSPEROUS... AND MOST IMPORTANTLY... HEALTHY HOLIDAY SEASON... AND 2012.
FOM MY HOUSE LAST NIGHT... TO YOURS... ALL THE VERY BEST!
Yours, in good diving...
Rick

The S.S. Bohemain struck a ledge in a storm and broke up off Black Rock outside Halifax Harbour, near Sambro Island, in 1920. Five hundred and twelve feet of iron, and displacing over five thousand tons, this giant of the Leyland Line was twenty year

Late fall kayaking - Slocan Lake, British Columbia

Taking shots of free divers under the ice. I did not have any directions for them, but would try to position myself in different places, to get some interesting shots. This was one of my favourites.

Fresh Water Kokanee Spawn... fish ladder on Meadow Creek, British Columbia.

Turtle and C-51 Wreck

Decorator crab gone wild!

Sea Pen Browning Pass Vancouver Island I like how the flash created "Chritmas Tree" lights

Party Snack! Starfishs eating mussel

Transparent Shrimp on Egg Mass - Bowen Island, British Columbia. Canon G10, UCL165 closeup lens, dual YS110a.
Shortlisted!

Prawn Portrait in B&W - Victoria, British Columbia. Canon G10, dual UCL165, dual S7S YS110a - No cropping.

Small (juvenile) white sea urchins, I think??

This photogenic ling cod became my dive buddy and followed me throughout a half hour dive.

Tiny Nudibranch. Bowen Island, British Columbia, Canada. Canon G10, dual UCL 165 closeup lenses.

Rock Gunnel, Victoria, British Columbia. Canon G10.
Shortlisted!

under the kelp forest_BC

Opalescent Nudibranch, Victoria, British Columbia. Canon G10, dual UCL165, dual S7S YS110a

Red Irish Lord Eye. Bowen Island, Vancouver, BC. Canon G10, dual UCL 165, dual S&S YS110a

My dive buddy looks to check on me before moving to another section of wreckage on the Letitia, lost near Halifax. Nikonos V, 12mm Sea & Sea lens with dual Ikelite 150 strobes. Cropped for subject and colour corrected.

Rockfish on the wreck. Porteau Cove, British Columbia. Canon G10, Sea and Sea Strobes.

Porteau Cove, British Columbia. G10 & Sea and Sea Strobes.
Shortlisted!

Scalyhead Sculpin

A diver in side-mount gear returns to the warm sunlit entrance of a flooded mine near Buckingham, Quebec. Brutally cold, ice cakes are reported to remain until early June. Nikonos V, 12mm Sea & Sea lens, Kodak 400 ASA film, colour corrected.

Round Goby. Invasive species to the Great Lakes. Lake Ontario near St. Catharines