Mike Bryant and his wife Ray are frequent Central Park birders. Their “other life” is scuba diving (since 1986). Here are some of the critters and creatures found in the Coral Triangle, bounded by the Philippines in the north down to Indonesia and Papua in the south. It’s the area with the greatest marine diversity in the world. They consider it the most interesting (and the most difficult to get to) diving available in tropical warm waters. Mike will be featuring some of the strange animals that qualify as “the world of the weird” from trips dating back to 2003.
A snorkeling experience in Bermuda was the start of the marine interest and has led to what now numbers 2,300 hours underwater. Probable subjects will include frogfish, the many forms of scorpionfish named for their poisonous spines, and the ever-entertaining cephalopods, the cuttlefish, squid, and octopus.