Don Silcock

Tiger Beach Sharks – The Real Deal?

Tiger Beach Sharks…This shallow, sandy area in the Bahamas is firmly established as one of the global diving destinations. With that fame largely derived from the many published images of its most celebrated visitor – Galeocerdo cuvier, …

Best Aircraft Wrecks in PNG

The Best Aircraft Wreck Dives in PNG… World War II came to New Guinea in January 1942 when the Imperial Japanese Army invaded Rabaul in New Britain. Turning the region in to a major theater of war in the battle for the Pacific. There were …

ONEUW One160X Strobe Review

ONEUW One160X Strobe Review… This is a first impressions review of my personal experience with this new Italian strobe. As explained below, I bought the strobes myself through my diving buddy and fellow underwater photographer Filippo Borghi. …

D500 for Underwater Photography

Nikon D500 for Underwater Photography – A Mid-Term Review… How time flies – just over two years ago I wrote a first impressions review of my newly acquired Nikon D500. And in it I waxed lyrically about what the new “king of DX …

Diving the Ogasawara Islands

Diving the Ogasawara Islands… Often referred to as the “Oriental Galapagos”, the remote Ogasawara Islands lie more than 1,000km south of Tokyo in the western North Pacific. Volcanic, subtropical and remarkably isolated, they are one of the most …

The Sharks of Protea Banks Article

It is often described as the African equivalent of the Gulf Stream. And is one of the world’s most powerful oceanic currents – one that moves almost 70 million tons of water a second! Its name is the Agulhas Current> And it forms to the …

The Bahamas Shark Sanctuary

The Bahamas Shark Sanctuary – The true relationship between sharks and man in the sea is not that easy to understand. We are after all terrestrial creatures that submerge under the water briefly at best. So our opportunities to even comprehend …

Tiger Beach – Like Nowhere Else…

Tiger Beach is probably the world’s best-known location for close encounters with Tiger Sharks. Together with large numbers of Caribbean reef sharks, lemon sharks, nurse sharks and, at times, other large shark species. For both divers …

Chinchorro Crocodiles Encounters…

Chinchorro Crocodiles… The pursuit of unusual and compelling photo-opportunities has led me on some interesting journeys over the last few years. But few come close to the raw excitement of photographing the American Crocodiles of Mexico’s …

The Giant Japanese Salamander

The Giant Japanese Salamander is one of the strangest creatures I have ever encountered underwater. Endemic to Japan, Andrias japonicus is one of the world’s largest amphibians. Capable of reaching around 1.5m in length and weighing more …

Oceanic Whitetip Sharks

This page has been completely updated and relocated. You can use the following link to read about the Oceanic Whitetip Sharks of Cat Island

Great Hammerhead Sharks of Bimini

The Great Hammerhead Sharks of Bimini are something very special… Sphyrna mokarran are large, powerful and generally solitary sharks, and encounters with them in the wild are usually fleeting. They are also now Critically Endangered, having …