I’m extremely grateful to call the vast blue expanse off Dominica Island, in the Caribbean Sea, home. Its unfathomable sapphire…

Have you ever had a flock of marine birds as dive buddies? It's definitely an unusual situation. They pierce the water's…

A leatherback turtle swimming gracefully through the open ocean is arguably one of the most majestic sights in the natural…

It's almost the end of 2023, and Mares would like to re-propose some of the most-read articles of the year from our blog...…

It’s easy to understand why we return to Mexico's Baja California Sur almost every year. The five destinations we visit…

Are you looking to be enveloped in a flying vortex of Mantas? Get ready, it doesn't happen often. Have you ever…

As divers, we know how difficult it is to describe the beauty and colours of underwater critters to land-based people.…

Occasionally I enter prestigious international photo contests. The selected pictures have the power to leave a mark, spread knowledge, foster…

Okay then, get ready and hurry up before it's too late. Mermaids? Are you sure? All right, well, let's look…

Manatees (Trichecus manatus latirostris) are large, gentle mammals that would be the bugbear of any dietitian. Lazy and sedentary, during the…

If your diving wish list includes finding yourself finning inside vortexes of different species of fish so dense as to darken…

The Baja California peninsula is another world, another universe, and inside this bewitching world there is a stretch of Pacific…

In the southern part of Baja California Sur, on the Pacific Coast, the offshore high sea is a place of…

Imagine swimming above thousands of small Munk’s Pigmy Devil rays (mobula munkiana) gliding slowly in warm water. You cannot see the…

These are a few of the stunning winners from the latest edition of the prestigious Underwater Photographer of the Year…

Follow us on a real tour of the biggest Mexican peninsula, Baja California Sur, and its satellite islands. During the past…

Compared to many millions of people, especially in this difficult time, Franco and I are lucky to live an independent…

It's almost the end of 2020, and Mares would like to re-propose some of the most-read articles of the year from our blog...…

The water surrounding the tiny island of Vis is the perfect guardian of many wrecks belonging to several historical eras. The aircraft…

Tenerife is the largest of the seven islands that make up the Canary archipelago. In addition to having the best…

I had dived under ice platforms in the chilly, cold waters of the Arctic and Antarctic several times before diving…

Islands in the current of an endless ocean (Part Two) Read Part 1 here Santa Maria In the Azores' archipelago,…

Nine islands of lava, each one different from the other; some with high coasts and fjords, inlets that seem to…

Can you believe that is possible to freedive and scuba dive side by side with a grouper or an octopus,…

The look of the Baja California Sur can appear tedious: cactus, desert, rocks, beaches and vice versa, but the underwater…

A few weeks ago I was leading a micro-group of passionate divers and UW photographers to Bimini Island, a lovely sandy…

This post starts our contribution to the Mares blog, to which we are absolutely grateful, and our first post is about the…