“The winch, synchronized with the flensers knife, accelerates, and the bada
~ (the Norwegian word for baleen) with a wrenching tear, parts from the whale
and swings wildly up into the air and outboard over the ship’s side, just
grazing the bulwarks. During the half-second when it is outboard the winchman
lets go his brake, and the lethal mass, which would smash to pulp anyone or
anything in it’s way, plunges down toward the sea ~ usually! I’ve seen
maybe five or six men killed by the bada alone’, Davison told me.....”
—from ‘Of Whales and Men’
There’s romance in the old whaling days, and one cannot help but to be
fascinated by the stories of this bygone era ~ The men who paddled out in
small boats armed with hand held harpoons to do battle with the great whales.
Many dr... (more)
The long whip-like tail, large eye, silver sheen on its side, and the ease
with which it glides through the water little well prepare you for your first
thresher shark sighting.
Inspired by fellow diver Scotty Tuason, I travelled to Cebu in the Visaya
Islands, Philippines, where I dived with Dutch, German, and Spanish divers,
all eager to catch a glimpse of these elusive sharks, which belo... (more)
“Another feature of these isles is their emphatic uninhabitableness. It
is deemed fit for ... the jackel itself; ... but the encantadas refuse to
harbour even the outcasts of the beasts. Man and wolf alike disown them.
Little but reptile life is here found; tortoises, lizards, ... and that
strangest anomaly of outlandish nature, the iguano. No voice, no lo, no howl
is heard; the ch... (more)
YV&C International Yacht Vacations & Charters Magazine reports:
When Jacques Yves Cousteau first visited Sipadan Island off Borneo, in the
seventies, aboard the legendary Calypso, he was so impressed with its marine
life, that he and his team of divers stayed on for six months to record its
spectacular marine creatures.
One of the extraordinary discoveries Cousteau and his divers made was
... (more)
YV&C International Yacht Vacations & Charters Magazine reports:
Swimming into a small entrance tunnel at a depth of 26 meters, you ener one
of the biggest oceanic limestone caves in the South Pacific Ocean. Fifty
meters long, it’s also 20 meters wide and 20 meters high. The cave is
teeming with flashlight fishes, reef sharks and a two meter grouper.
In the gin clear water, you feel as... (more)
Tony Karacsonyi is a professional marine photographer who has been recognised globally for his exciting images. Marine photography has taken Tony to some of the world’s great places such as Papua New Guinea’s: Siassi, Trobriand and D’Entrecasteaux Islands,Tonga, Great Barrier Reef, Sabah, Ningaloo Reefs and Australia’s Coral Sea. In 1998, he was awarded with the prestigious Australian Geographic “Photographer of the Year“, for photography on giant cuttlefish and won several international awards, including a ‘runner up’ position in the “Wildlife Photographer of The Year” award in London, during 1996, 1997, 1998.
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