Tony Karacsonyi

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... (more)

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. A myriad of species lives in the rainforest – a veritable green... (more)

“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... (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, lizar... (more)

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... (more)

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! Rising up to 4,000 metres from the ocean, the D’Entrecasteaux Isla... (more)

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 underwate... (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 ... (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 ... (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 r... (more)

YV&C International Yacht Vacations & Charters Magazine reports: 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 Silver... (more)