Understanding, enjoying and caring for our oceans
David Muirhead posted these squid photos at Rapid Bay jetty on iNaturalist recently, commenting “this was a great MLSSA dive”. (All photos taken by David Muirhead) The dive was held on 5th December 2015. It wasn’t a great dive for me, but that’s another story. I can only say that […]
Although our recent lock-down has now ended, this is an update to my “Lock-down Story No.4 – My Experiences with Sharks”. In Lock-down Story No.4 – My Experiences with Sharks, I overlooked a story from 1987. I have just rediscovered a report that I made in our April 1987 newsletter […]
It’s a wonder that I took up scuba diving at all after having seen the movie “Jaws” once or twice at that stage. I decided to take up diving after buying the book “The Skindiver’s Underwater World” by Graeme R Dodd, even though there was a chapter about sharks in […]
We have T-shirts & vinyl stickers featuring the MLSSA Leafy Seadragon logo for sale through Redbubble. These MLSSA products include a range of T-shirts & hoodies. Our Leafy Seadragon logo features on these garments. You can choose from a range of colours and styles. MLSSA logo shirt 100% cotton […]
This was actually going to be my first lock-down story before I got carried away with the story about how my nose surgery affected my diving. (These ‘Lock-down’ stories aren’t to be taken too seriously.) In June 2017, I was asked to make a photographic dive in the Cruising Yacht […]
On just the 2nd day of a one-week lock-down in SA for COVID-19, I was looking through some old magazines. I came across a couple of old photos, which prompted me to write about a past dive of mine. I just needed to find some more photos on my computers. […]
Ralph Foster from the SA Museum is keen to find out if divers in SA have seen any bicoloured specimens of Whitebarred Boxfish, Anoplocapros lenticularis. He is referring to orange & white colouration without any dark markings. He says that orange & white Whitebarred Boxfish without any dark markings are […]
This is a story about how Claude Evans’ dream of restoring an old Huon pine yacht became more of a nightmare, only to end happily. This story started 12 months ago. It began in July 2020. I had documented as much of the story as I could at the time. […]
Congratulations to downunderpix’s Paul Macdonald & Elizabeth Solich on having the little rod-less anglerfish that they have been finding at Edithburgh confirmed as being a new species that has been given the name Narungga Frogfish, Histiophryne narungga. It was previously thought to have been the cryptic or rodless anglerfish, Histiophryne […]
Access to most of our old newsletters & journals (and images in our Photo Index of SA Marine Life) can be found at http://www.mlssa.asn.au We published over 400 hard copy newsletters from 1976 to 2014, plus 5 electronic only newsletters. We have mostly used Facebook and a monthly mail-out for […]