Viewing the wonder and amazement of the Tall Ships at Sail Boston 2026.

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.

4th of July on the River Charles, Boston, Massachusetts for the 25oth anniversary of USA.

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.

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.

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.

Spending time admiring the macro life in Boston Harbor, diving with the Boston Facelina nudibranch.

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.

Newport, Rhode Island over the years

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.