Laz – TheLivingSea

Cheloniidae, Marine Life, Reptiles, Reptilia, Sea Turtles: Testudines, baby, copyrighted, immature, juvenile, loggerhead turtle: loggerhead: Carreta carreta, marine, ocean, underwater, underwater photo, young

Against All Odds

By LazConservation

It was a leisurely stroll along Juno Beach to see how the first weather bands...

August 25, 2012

You are going to travel through a wonderland. Astonishment and amazement will probably become your habitual state of mind. From this day on you will be entering a new world, you will be seeing what no man has yet seen.
— Jules Verne
20,000 Leagues Under The Sea

Jules Verne Quote

July 6, 2012

An Ocean Night Dive

By LazScuba Diving Journal

To the uninitiated, the thought of jumping feet first into the black, inky darkness of...

April 16, 2012

Batoidea: Batoids, Cartilaginous Fishes: Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchs: Elasmobranchii, FL, Fishes, Florida, Marine Life, Rajiformes, Rays and Skates, Skates: Rajidae, USA, United States, behavior, benthic, benthos, bottom, clearnose skate: Raja eglanteria, copyrighted, floor, marine, ocean, sand, scuba, scuba diving, sea floor, underwater, underwater photo, walking

The “Walking” Elasmobranch

By LazScuba Diving Journal

One of the most difficult tasks of a wildlife filmmaker is the patience required to...

April 15, 2012

Expect the Unexpected

By LazScuba Diving Journal

Expect the unexpected — these are the words I use to describe diving in Palm...

April 28, 2010

Arthropods: Arthropoda, Bony Fishes: Osteichthyes, Crustaceans: Crustacea, Decapods: Decapoda, Fishes, Invertebrates, Malacostraceans: Malacostracea, Marine Life, Tube Blennies: Chaenopsidae, blue-eye hermit crab: Paguristes sanguinimanus, bluethroat pikeblenny: Chaenopsis ocellata, close up, copyrighted, horizontal, landscape, marine, muck, ocean, underwater, underwater photo

Sandy Plain of Peacefulness

By LazNature Writing, Scuba Diving Journal

I sometimes think to myself what is it about scuba diving that I enjoy so...

December 7, 2009

With a Little Patience

By LazScuba Diving Journal

I recently had the wonderful privilege to meet two wonderful film makers, Howard and Michelle...

March 7, 2009

In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we are taught.
— Baba Dioum
Senegalese Ecologist

Baba Dioum Quote

January 25, 2009

080816, Beaded Sea Star, Florida Pricklycockle, adult, close up, copyrighted, defense, disk / oval, echinoderm, horizontal, hunting, jumping / leaping, landscape, macro, mature, mollusk, muck, orange, sand

The Ocean’s Holy Grail

By LazNature Writing, Scuba Diving Journal

I recently found myself hovering in one spot no larger than five feet by five...

August 16, 2008

080822, Anthozoans: Anthozoa, Cnidarians: Cnidaria, Faviidae, Faviina, Hexacorals: Hexacorallia, Invertebrates, Marine Life, Mountainous star coral: Montastraea faveolata, Stony Corals: Scleractina: Scleractinia, copyrighted, coral, egg, horizontal, landscape, macro, marine, ocean, spawning, underwater, underwater photo

Coral Spawning — A Galaxy of Life

By LazNature Writing

Adrift in a vast galaxy of darkness, the beam from my flashlight breaks on a...

August 2, 2008

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
— T.S. Eliot
Poem from "Four Quartets"

T.S. Eliot Quote

August 1, 2008

080307, 1 -3 inches, Bony Fishes: Osteichthyes, Combtooth Blennies: Blenniidae, Fishes, Marine Life, Seaweed Blenny, adult, body - partial, copyrighted, egg laying, female, fish, guarding eggs, horizontal, landscape, macro, male, marine, mating, mature, muck, nesting, ocean, seaweed blenny: Parablennius marmoreus, sloping head, spawning, underwater, underwater photo, vertebrates

An Ocean Romance

By LazScuba Diving Journal

Today’s dive was quite unique as most dives normally tend to be. While cruising around...

March 7, 2008