Some diving in San Diego during spring.

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.

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.

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!

A collection of images taken on and around the island of Conanicut in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island.

Before and after the plunge. Divers before, after and during the plunge.

Sending Letters from the Sea

Words with salt, original writing and coastal imagery.

Diving Tewksbury Rock in the Boston Harbor Islands, a steep pinnacle known for great topography and hunting.

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.

Scenes of Summer: F/V Atlantic out of Woods Hole, Ma at Fish Pier in Boston, early summer unloading the catch.

Exploring underneath a massive sargassum seaweed patch. Don’t get lost, and don’t run out of air before you find your way out of the disappearing cave.

St. Martin - circa 2015

Sharing the sea for a moment with the worlds largest bony fish, the Mola mola.

Newport and Jamestown Rhode Island have been dressing up for Debby in the week before her arrival with growling seas and shrouded skies. Even with a hurricane in its path, this hidden gem of New England behaves elegantly and with style. From the sleepy neighborhoods and harbors to the upper class sailing society of Newport, these images will give you a glimpse into the feeling of Narragansett Bay.

Ever wondered why captain’s and fishermen are terrified of bananas being onboard? I’m not superstitious….. but as a sailor, I’m a little “sticious” and despite understanding the reasons why this superstition came about, there are still things out there we can’t fully explain and thus gives reason for most of us only “slightly-sticious” to still err on the side of caution. I urge you to read on, listen to the history behind this superstition of bringing banana’s onboard and make the decision for yourself.

Watch your depth, the tide is low. The sun is dropping, ushering the light away and giving the water an uninviting darkness, but the seas are calm, breeze so fresh and colors are vivid. Traveling on through Dorchester Bay the sky is bright with a hazy peach colour as the last minutes of sunset pass by giving way to vibrant pre-darkness blue tones. In the early days, sailing into Boston Harbor would have looked much different….

Nix’s Mate, by the Narrows and just north of Gallops Island was long known to stand for tragedy and terror now long forgotten by modern society. Until as late as 1835 those accused of piracy and severe crimes at sea were given the ultimate punishment. Sailors were hung on Boston Common in a public spectacle before being thrown back on a boat and taken far from the good people of town to Nix’s Mate.

How to party like a pirate at a lighthouse. Fourth of July celebration at Graves Lightstation, Boston. Friends, fresh seafood, firing cannons and Independence Day festivities.

It’s halfway past low tide and the seas are rising high. The hangout spot for the seals and ducks will soon disappear under the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. In the last few hours they soak up the sun and dry their bones with each other on a seaweed covered rock pile off the New England coast.

St. Croix. US Virgin Islands 2023

The views and observations of a water taxi boat captain in Boston, Massachusetts, summer 2023.