I’ve got an exciting announcement for The Diving Blog!

This Friday I’ll be starting our first regular series of articles. This one will be about fish identification.

Fish identification is one of my favorite parts of diving. It’s exciting to talk about what fish you saw back on the boat, or to look them up in a book. Over time you begin to learn quite a few fish. It can be daunting at first, however. If you check out one of these familiar books, you’ll notice they’re thick (over 500 pages!). Where do you begin?

Each article in this series will profile a different marine animal. We’ll see where it lives in the world, what is it’s behavior, and how can you recognize it. By breaking the monumental task of learning fish down into smaller, digestible articles I hope to help you become adept at fish identification, one creature at a time. I’m excited about it because it will also be a learning process for me.

I haven’t decided if this series will be weekly or bi-monthly. Let me know if you have any suggestions, either about this series or the blog in general. Feel free to leave a comment or even send me an email. I want this blog to be as useful for you as it is for me.

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