In British Columbia, the Red Irish Lord (Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus) has earned a devoted following among underwater photographers, drawn to its…
Author: Jett Britnell
Jett Britnell
Jett & Kathryn Britnell are internationally published travel writers, photographers, scuba divers, shark advocates, guest speakers, explorers, book reviewers, marine conservationists and devil may care adventurers.
Sea anemones may resemble underwater flowers, but they are animals that live from sunlit tide pools to the deep sea.…
In the depths of British Columbia’s Emerald Sea, painted greenlings (Oxylebius Pictus) follow a notably intricate polygamous mating system in…
A decade after one of the most extensive marine wildlife declines ever recorded, researchers in the United States have identified…
I’m sorry to be the bearer of this news today, but we learned this morning that John Pollack FI’06 has…
“Let me take you down… ’cause I’m going to strawberry fields.” — The Beatles. In British Columbia, the most spectacular…
1. All Clownfish Start Life as MalesEvery clownfish is born male. If the dominant female in a group dies, the…
Few experiences in life can compare to snorkeling with beluga whales in western Hudson Bay, at Churchill, Manitoba. This is the realm of the largest beluga whale population in the world where they number as many as 57,000 whales.
It has taken a few weeks to allow thoughts to sink in on what I’m about to write. During my lifetime I have, from shattered experience, learned it is never easy to say goodbye to a friend. Harder still when it is their untimely death that takes them away without any opportunity to say goodbye.