MARINE LIFE

What, where, how

Working as a Divemaster and Marine Biologist, I am often asked what the divers have just seen and a few fun facts about them. So I have created this section to my website, dedicated to those curious divers!
Feel free to message me if you have any burning questions about Marine life and I will try to write about them here.

Marine Life: Welcome

Rebecca Kierman

Jan 21, 20192 min read

Creature feature - The Flying Gurnard

Often found dwelling on the sandy floors of warm coastal waters, these extraordinary fish can be found displaying their colourful...

Rebecca Kierman

Jan 20, 20192 min read

The stay at home Dad and handy-man of the sea

Bulbous eyes, a large mouth and head with a slender tapered body. This fish looks and sounds like a deep sea creature, but they can be...

Rebecca Kierman

Jan 14, 20193 min read

The real 'Finding Nemo' story

The soon to be Clown fish parents admired their new anemone home, just as the Mum (Coral) caught sight of hungry Barracuda. Coral tried...

Rebecca Kierman

Jan 3, 20193 min read

How to tell the difference between a squid and cuttlefish

Squid, octopuses, nautiluses and cuttlefish - What do they all have in common? They all collectively belong to the Family known as...

Rebecca Kierman

Nov 19, 20182 min read

Sand pooping, beak-like teeth, colour and sex changing fish

Yes, it’s true! Parrotfish really do create islands with their poop! But this family reaches even crazier realms of the bizarre…...

Rebecca Kierman

Nov 19, 20183 min read

Meet the Marine molluscs who gambled with evolution and won

If Darwin were to study these bewildering creatures, I am pretty sure he would have said they took an ‘evolutionary gamble’ with life. So...

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