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.
Some sea slugs run on solar power, others cast off their body parts, and still others steal firearms from other animals, reusing them. They can even produce sulphuric acid! Marine scientists are discovering that some sea slugs use solar power, breaking all the rules of the animal world...Apr. 30, 2007 01:00 AM EDT Reads: 1,547
The Amazon River and its many tributaries, like the Napo River and Pastaza River, flow through one of the globe's last wilderness areas. In the canopy, a sky garden of exotic bromeliads and plants thrive.
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 drowned and even the more modern whaling operations in the...
Born of Fire, the Galapagos Islands are tips of submarine volcanoes, a place where evolution can be observed In-Situ. Hundreds of miles from mainland Ecuador, animals and plants set adrift have somehow found and colonised the desert islands. Floating rafts of vegetation, wind, air cur...
Rolling into the big blue, near Krangket Island, we drift down the steep coral walls. There are fish everywhere: fusiliers, barracuda and big-eye trevally. A school of sweetlips line the sandy bottom, all facing the same direction. I hug the bottom to catch this magical shot. We glide ...
Seldom visited by scuba divers, are the remote D'Entrecasteaux Islands and Trobriand Islands, off the North-East tip of Papua New Guinea. These islands and the Melanesian people who live there are wild!
Jervis Bay, approximately 250 kilometres south of Sydney, abounds in sub-tropical marine life, especially in spring and summer, when warm east coast currents push down Australia?s east coast. A mecca for divers largely from Sydney and Canberra, Jervis Bay has seen underwater film crews...
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.
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...
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.
It was just another day's diving in paradise for Dietmar Amon of Lissenung Island, except today he had a diver named Gadi, who wanted to see big sharks. 'I'll take you to see the silvertips at Silvertip Reef' said Dietmar.
