CAPTAIN’s bLOG
Stories from the Sea & Sights from the Depths
Clear Water Catalina
If Gold’s Gym, Venice Beach is the mecca for bodybuilding, Casino Point at Catalina Island is definitely the mecca of scuba diving. By noon the area is packed with swimmers and snorkelers weaving through the never ending line of divers queuing up for the walk down the stairway to blue heaven. Both good planning and good luck were responsible for the great experience including arriving early, before the crowds, while the water was still undisturbed and happening to be in SoCal during a weather window of calm, clear weather and water in early October.
1st Annul Lobster Season Opener Tournament
Redondo Dive & Tackle in Hermosa Beach, CA started Lobster Season opening day with the 1st Annual Lobster Season Opener Tournament. We had categories for shore diving, boat diving, shore hoop netting, and hoop netting from a boat as well as biggest overall.
Northeast Wind Farm: Deepwater Spearfishing
Come check out what it’s like to dive and hunt on the wind farms off Block Island. These structures aren't more than 13 years old and already they are covered in growth, attracting sea stars and mollusk eating fish like cunner and tautog, the plankton, krill and small shrimps congregate, bringing in the small baitfish which then attracts the bigger predatory and pelagic fish that pass by seasonally. Big fish, deep, cold water and murky green visibility reminds you that you sometimes have to push the limits, and sometimes you just want to.
Tall Ships: Sail Boston 2026
Viewing the wonder and amazement of the Tall Ships at Sail Boston 2026.
Marbled Mola
Coming back from our morning dives on Sunday with lobsters in the live well and a newly certified diver, I spotted the tell tail sign of a Mola Mola, the lazy tail flap mimicking what’s often confused to be a shark fin breaking the surface.
250 Years of USA
4th of July on the River Charles, Boston, Massachusetts for the 25oth anniversary of USA.
Fog Monster Weekend
Last weekend in July the easterly winds collected into a gentle breeze, just enough to push the cool sea air towards the warm land and compress it into a thick fog but not enough to blow it away.
Salty Summer
The goal this summer season is the same as always, dive more, explore more. Jumping in this past weekend it really felt like the start of summer. The conditions were beautiful, with some excessive breeze here and there and some sea chop at times but all in all it was an epic weekend.
Scallop gives the Red Hake the shake.
Out diving last weekend on the boat and we ended up finding some scattered and lost scallops that drifted away from their bed most likely in a winter storm. Scallops are great raw right out of the shell so grabbing a few when the opportunity presents itself is always a treat and worth the grab for a perfect snack from the salt. The scallops will pop a pucker, open up and look at you with the hundreds of eyes lining the edge of the shell and every so often you’ll find a little fish inside.
the Slugs of Boston
Spending time admiring the macro life in Boston Harbor, diving with the Boston Facelina nudibranch.
Tako Take-off
How smart are octopus? Probably smarter than you think, possibly smarter than your neighbor and definitely smarter than your goldfish. They exhibit excellent problem solving skills and general cognitive awareness as proven by numerous studies.
10 Year Surface Interval
I love big picture diving where you’re in awe of a whole ecosystem interacting naturally in some big epic event like a feeding frenzy. This could have been one of my top 5 dives in New England and I got pictures to prove it.
Whales of Stellwagon
Watching the last of the season’s feeding beasts with City Harbor Cruises Whale Watch out of Boston, Ma on the glorious vessel Sanctuary. Stuck in whale soup and shearwater species galore, all that and more! Step Right Up!
Conanicut Island
A collection of images taken on and around the island of Conanicut in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.
Diver out of Water
Before and after the plunge. Divers before, after and during the plunge.
Sending Letters from the Sea
Sending Letters from the Sea
Words with salt, original writing and coastal imagery.
Diving Tewksbury Rock
Diving Tewksbury Rock in the Boston Harbor Islands, a steep pinnacle known for great topography and hunting.
Spills Kill
On Friday, April 11th 2025, Boston had a front row seat to the irreversible and devastating damage of a marine catastrophe. In the early hours just after sunrise Fishing Vessel Eileen Rita (of New England Marine Inc.), a scalloper out of New Bedford ran around on Green Island and sank in Hypocrite Channel, just outside of the Boston inner harbor.