… grows to a maximum length of only 24 mm and this puts it in the company of the smallest vertebrates on earth. Imagine how small its heart must be, pumping the lifeblood that sustains its tiny form. The food it eats must be smaller still, and [...]
A tour group from “Die Tauchprofis” of Braunschweig/Germany, recently visited the “Cocktaildivers” in the “Garden of Eden” of Sabang Beach Puerto Galera /Philippines for a fantastic underwater adventure. 16 days of diving at 33 dive spots with a fantasticfull of stunning marine underwater worldlife… We already came with the [...]
Hopefully you all have slipped well into the new year! Just like us and our corals, which the "contemplative time" has done appreciably well. For them, who did not have gingerbread and cookies, but a Christmas care with plankton food, trace elements and then in addition the light from the [...]
The Lake Constance is 395 m above sea level and is, with an area of 536km² and a volume of 48 km³ by far the biggest lake in germany. The maximum depth is 254 m, the average depthg 90m. It´s basin was formed by the „Rhine glacier“ during the [...]
A sample from the Salzgittersee.
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All these photographs have been taken during two night dives on the 8th and 10th august at Marsa Shagra together with my buddy Gerhard Kutschera. After excitation with a blue light torch most corals fluoresced in green light, but also partly in red, orange or blue light. Some fish have [...]
FISH OF THE RED SEA In this 2-day part of the Marine Biology Workshop, we mainly dealt with fish and immersed ourselves in two different reef species:1. At Marsa Shagra House Reef, a coastal strip interrupted by a natural Bay (Marsa), and2. On the Elphinstone Reef, a platform reef that [...]
The topics of the 3-day workshop were : • Coral reef ecology • fishes of the Red Sea • plankton and microfauna • threats to marine ecosystems & marine conservation The evening presentation on “Coral reef ecology” began with the conditions and pre-requisites of coral reef ecosystems, reef building [...]
