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I am excited to see my story about the global biodiversity crisis impacting arguably the biodiverse ecosystem: coral reefs in Wild Eye magazine. The story aims to help readers understand why the biodiversity of this ecosystem is so special, and the importance of highly protected marine protected areas in preserving it. The 
I feel that all the talk around coral reef conservation is too focused on restoration. But the great ecological value of coral reefs is the huge biodiversity of life they support, and the best way to conserve this is not in rebuilding but in properly protecting our richest reefs. Both approaches have their value, but I feel the conversation, conservation and funding are way too skewed towards restoration being the solution, which puts the unique biodiversity at risk. 
This image shot with Sony A1 + Nikonos 15mm. Nauticam housing, Retra Strobes. 
I’ll share a link in the comments where you can read the current issue for FREE! 

This image shot with Nikon D4 + Trioplan 100mm. Subal housing, Seacam strobes.

This image shot with Sony A1 + Sony 90mm. Nauticam housing, Retra Strobes. 

This image shot with Nikon D850, 105mm, Subal housing, Retra Strobes. 

Image shot with Nikon Z8 + 16-35mm, Seacam OPP, Seacam housing, Seacam strobes.
Something of a departure from my normal posts, but I wanted to tell you about these T-shirts. @thesharktrust has launched two new Ts featured a couple of my classic shark pictures. I guess pictures need to be old to become classics - and these two have a vintage of over 15 and 20 years old! Available in a wide range of sizes - as ably demonstrated here by me and Isabella. And I believe they can ship them most places in the world. There is no money coming to me for this - all the proceeds go to the amazing conservation work carried out by the Shark Trust. I’ll put a link in the comments, but being IG it can’t be clickable.
It was wonderful to find Ras Mohammed packed with a great spawning aggregation of snappers. The Egyptian Government deserve a lot of credit for helping keeping these very long lived fish (many more than 50 years old) safe from fishing. 
This shot is with the new Sony A7RVI camera in the new Nauticam housing. The swirl effect is created by simultaneously rotating the camera, while zooming the lens during a long exposure. The FCP lens is especially good for this because of its very large zoom lens. @nauticamhousings @retra_uwt @oceantribefleet
I understand that boats need to moor in the Red Sea, but was very sad to find one tied to one of my favourite coral bommies, a spot that is almost entirely covered in living coral. Most of the boats are careful, so this was sad to see. Hopefully the coral wasn’t harmed.
How ever many times I see the bright beauty of Red Sea reefs, it never dims. Such a stunning expression of wild nature here on Egypt’s coral reefs. My lenses are enjoying a treat this week!
I haven’t seen a frogfish in the Red Sea for ages. Very much because of our choice of sites. But sometimes we get lucky and get one in the classic Red Sea scenery. I remember being so excited when I found this one. Taken with the Nikonos 20-35mm lens. Maybe this year will serve up another.
We swim past 1000s of them, but do we stop and appreciate anthias enough? On my mind as I transition from shoots in Fiji and the Red Sea (where some of these shots come from), two of the best spots to see them in all their gathered splendour.
Individually they are beautifully streamlined, with fusiform bodies and forked, lyre tails. And stunningly coloured too. They are worthy of our attention. Sometimes even the females too 😂 There are lots of amazing big animals in the ocean, but there are some pretty neat small ones as well.
Hooray! Finally made my keepers selection from my March Raja trip. It is always a slow process because I set myself the task of doing all the IDs before allowing myself the fun of processing! Note to self - stop diving in the heart of marine biodiversity and do more single species shoots! There are about 100 shots from this trip on my website already. Here are a few new ones I processed out this morning.
I’ve published a page on my website with my detailed recommendations for set up, settings customisation and even lens options for shooting the new Sony A7RVI underwater. Even covers the new programmable Shooting Modes. Happy WOD’26
I realise not many have that camera yet, but most of it is directly applicable to other Sony cameras. And in fact other mirrorless cameras too, as most the options we need to change regularly while shooting underwater are universal across the cameras even if the manufacturers have different names for the controls. 
The page is a bit hidden away on my website. So if you want a direct link message me or comment below and ask and I can DM you.
Look forward to hunting for the summer spawning aggregation schools in the Ras Mohammed National Park in the coming weeks. Pictured here are bohar snappers, blacktail barracuda x2, batfish x2, bigeye trevally, giant trevally, unicornfish and bohar snappers again. 
Spawning aggregations are easily fished out by people, with all the adults from over a large area gathered in one spot. And once they have gone they don’t easily come back, as the ‘memory’ of where and when to gather is lost for that species in that area. It has been up and down for these gatherings over the last 30 years, with fishing controlled and uncontrolled. These days the fishermen are paid not to fish in the important summer spawning season, although they argue that the scientists have the timing wrong and they want to fish in summer. Hopefully we will see impressive schools this year and they will replenish the surrounding reefs with the next generation.
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