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- Diver with Green Moray – When you come across a great moment like this scenario of a diver coming up on very large green moray, clear communication is imperative. Get your signals crossed and it could result in a complete disconnect between your buddy and the subject, leaving your buddy looking like a deer in the headlights.

How to Shoot Your Dive Buddy

June 14, 2024 Walt Stearns Diving, Imaging Techniques, Latest, Photography

You may not be a professional underwater photographer, and your dive buddy is certainly not a professional model. As the[…]

The bones of two short-finned pilot whales (Globicephala macrorhynchus) inside a deep underwater cave in the Fiji Islands.

Mystery of the Whale Cave

May 29, 2024 Walt Stearns Diving

Ever look back on an experience and asked yourself “if I knew then what I know now, would I have[…]

A medium size whale shark between 20 and 30 feet in length cruises just below the surface at Oslob, Philippines.

Whale Sharks of Oslob

May 28, 2024 Walt Stearns Diving, Latest, Marine Life

Understanding the Philippines’ Most Popular Big Animal Encounter. Growing to lengths of 45 feet, and weighing as much as 15[…]

How to combine the right balance between that amount of ambient present with the amount of fill lighting from your underwater flash system for more dynamic imagery.

Balancing Flash With Ambient Light

April 30, 2024 Walt Stearns Diving, Imaging Techniques, Photography

Finding the right balance between flash fill photography with ambient lighting from the sun to achieve more dynamic Imagery.

This lemon shark portrait was taken during a shark dive off the coast of Jupiter Florida in 90 feet of water back 2014. The camera used for this particular shot was a Canon 7D fitted with a Tokina 10-17 fisheye zoom lens with the lighting provided by a pair of Sea & Sea YS-250’s set on half power.

It Must be the Camera

April 30, 2024 Walt Stearns Diving, Imaging Techniques, Photography

As underwater photographers, we work in an environment that has numerous variables and uncertainties that you do not encounter in a studio setting.

A large green moray eel peers from its lair in the reef off the Palm Beach Florida’s Coast.

Palm Beach Reefs – Where Big Things Prowl

April 22, 2024 Walt Stearns Atlantic & Caribbean, Diving, Florida's East Coast, Local Diving, World Dives

At the risk of sounding presumptuous, I will just come right out and say it: there is no better, or[…]

Beautiful orange sea horse taken at the Blue Heron Bridge.

Palm Beach County’s Famous Blue Heron Bridge

April 20, 2024 Walt Stearns Atlantic & Caribbean, Diving, Florida's East Coast, Local Diving, Marine Life, World Dives

West Palm Beach’s Blue Heron Bridge is more than an easy spot for a shore dive, it’s also one the[…]

Divers framed by the main entrance of the Hole-in-the-wall off Jupiter Florida.

Deep Dive on Florida’s Mysterious Hole-in-the-Wall

April 17, 2024 Walt Stearns Atlantic & Caribbean, Diving, Florida's East Coast, Local Diving, World Dives

Every destination has its “Signature Dive.” In most cases it’s a particular wreck, reef or animal attraction that is touted[…]

Galvanic corrosion is an electrochemical process in which one metal type corrodes preferentially to another metal type when both metals are placed in contact with an electrolyte like sea water.

Battling Galvanic Corrosion

December 12, 2023 Walt Stearns Dive Ed, Dive Gear, Diving

Saltwater is harsh on metals like aluminum, but there is solution to keeping Galvanic Corrosion at Bay. Place two dissimilar[…]

By itself the Optima CM is a fully functional, electronic closed circuit oxygen rebreather that can be readily fastened to most types of scuba harnesses like it is here on Jared Hires’ Nomad Side Mount system.

Dive Rite’s O2PTIMA CM Rebreather

February 22, 2021 Walt Stearns Dive Gear, Diving, Gear Reviews

“Incredibly versatile, self-contained, and travel ready.” That’s how Dive Rite describes their O2ptima CM rebreather. It is an electronic, fully-closed system,[…]