Wet Blue Diary

Çok  değer verdiğim, kendisi güzel bir insan olan MURAT DRAMAN’IN kitabı.

Görmeyenlere duyurulur, mükemmel fotoğraflar, haritalar ve bilgilerle süslü olan ve içerisinde latince isimlerden log book’a kadar birçok bölüm bulunan bu kitabı almayı unutmayın ! Şiddetle tavsiye edilir………….

Kitaba aşağıdaki linkleri kullanarak ulaşabilirsiniz.

www.thedivingguidekas.com

www.dragoman-turkey-com

I would like to share some of the macro pictures from my trip to Thailand. I will try to share them and give information about the species as much as I could.

Please click on the figure in order to enlarge them

We have spent 40 days in Thailand and Cambodia and I had a chance to dive in different locations in Thailand. The first one was Beautiful Simillan Islands. These pictures were from East of Eden dive sight (night dive).

Simillan Islands is northwest of Phuket. You can either go there from Phuket with daily tours (which I don’t recommend as it takes long time to get there) or you can go up north to the town where they take you to the Islands. Spending some time there, is a better way to experience the place.

I wish I had some more chances for night diving as I have encountered many nocturnal animals (night time lovers).Night diving gives great opportunities for photography and better light.

We spent one night and 2 days of diving in Simillan Islands (5 dives), great place and rich marine life.

The only dissapontment for me was not seeing any sharks or other big guys except for turtles but the richness of the marine life is stunning indeed.

Flabellina affinis

During the search for new species for my project, this beautiful seaslug was dancing on the fishing line as I saw it. Its movents was beautiful changing shape every second with the current. It was trying to find his way receiving chemical signals from the water probably and eating his lunch,  the algae on the fishing line

Question: Guess where it was trying to reach?

 Answer: Tring to reach to another one which is waiting on the Eudendrium hydroid species full off Flabellina eggs at the background

Yaban TV’deki Gizli Derinlikler için çekilen sualtı video görüntüleri. Enchelycore anatina
(Sivridişli muren) 25 metrelerde duvarda bir çatlakta dinlenmekte.

Turgutreis Çatal Ada Ağustos 2009

Yaban TV’dekiGizli Derinlikler için çekilen sualtı video görüntüleri.
Labrus mixtus (Benekli lapin-cuckoo wrasse) 20 metrelerde kaya altında Ircinia türü bir süngerin üzerinde dinlenmekte.
Turgutreis Çatal Ada Ağustos 2009

New Grouper Species From KAŞ

Earlier I didn’t posted here about my dives in Gokova, Knidos and Datca where I get to find new species for this project. In Gokova One of  fish the species which I encountered there was this juvanile grouper species.

I highly suspect that it is young individual for the species Mycteroperca rubra.

The patterns on the fish and its shape just makes me think this way. But one cannot be sure and need further identification resources before a conclusion.

There was yet another species I encountered in Gokova a big adult gruper where I didn’t have a chance to photograp as I had my macro lens with me. Epinephelus sp. (the white grouper). Also in Datca I encountered a rare spieces of grouper Epinephelus caninus during a night dive which I didn’t have any picture of it before.

I already had some low quality shots of  Epinephelus costae female from Bodrum but  Iwasnt happy with the quality of them. So in Kaş some of the gave me very nice poses. Here is the result! The other species as I explained above are new for the database project: Mycteroperca rubra and Epinephelus sp.

http://www.dragoman-turkey.com

ALGLER

İşte bu bölümde tanımlamalarda problemlerim var. Elimde alglere yönelik çok kaynak yok, Suana kadar fotograflayabildeklerim türler bunlar. Ama mutlaka arşivde benim gözümden kaçanlar vardır.

Elimdeki kaynaklar arttıkça, yardımlar geldikçe bu türlerin ve diğerlerininde isimlerini burada yer vermeye çalışacağım. Alglerin uzun bi süredir biyoteknoloji biliminin yoğunlaştığı ailelerden biri. Algler, başta kozmetik olmak üzere besin, sağlık ve daha birçok sektördede arıştırmaların devam ettiği ve son ürünlere ulaşabilen bazı deniz canlılarını içinde barındırmakta.

Bu türlerden N.D. ile gösterilmiş olanlar tanımlayamadıkları. Bilginiz varsa bekliyorum yorumlarınızı. 

ALGAE

I have some problems in this part. My knowledge with algae is not so good. The references I have and net sources doesn’t give alot of information about them. These are all the species that I could capture upto now. I will add more species in here whenever I get better sources and capture more images.

Algae is a very interesting family of marine animals as it has many uses in marine biotechnology. There are quite a good number of scientific research going on about algae in many marine institutes around the world. Additionally there are some end products that found usage in Cosmetics, food, health and etc. fields.

The species that are identified as N.D. are species that I couldn’t find species name. Please help me if you have knowledge on them.

Denizlerimizdeki Balıklar

Bugune kadar gercekleştirdiğim 12 dalışta görüntüleyebildiğim balıkları sizlerle paylaşmak istedim. Dalıslar simdilik Bodrum Yarımadası civarında 30 metre derinlige kadar gerceklestirildi. Bu calışmada büyük ihtimalle Karadeniz ve Marmara yer alamayacak çünkü benim çokda bilgili olmadığım ve şuan için imkanlarımın dışında yer alan denizler. Ancak ilerki gunlerde bu bolgelere dalıs ve calısma imkanım olursa buralardaki sualtı yasamınıda buraya tasımak isterim. Acıkladıgım sebeblerden ötürü bu calısmaya Doğu Akdeniz Balıkları diyelim.

Bilemiyorum butun balıkları goruntıleme fırsatım olacakmı, Kopekbalıkları, vatozlar ve derin türler kafamda soru işareti ama gunler ilerledikce yeni tur sayısı azalacak ve bende dahada hırslanacagım ama bu sans ve dogru yerde olmakla ilgili. Simdilik  bu kadar turle baslayalım. Bu liste hızlıca artacak emin olun, ama icimdende aldım dertsiz basıma belayı diyorum !

Bu yolda desteklerinizi ve yorumlarınızı sabırsızlıkla bekliyorum.

Tum deniz severler bu site sizin icin gerceklestiriliyor, lutfen beni yalnız  koymayın!

Eastern Mediterranean Fishes

Like the other categories in my Eastern Mediterranean Marine Species Database I will add as much species as possible weekly. But the story with fishes will be a long one I suppose. There are around 42 species in the list right now but with dives progress you won’t beleive how many different species of fish you will get to see here.

The species numbers will grow fast as I dive every other day, but it will slow down when I got many species and finding new ones will be a challange. I could ask for images from other photographers but it wouldn’t be so much fun then. I will try to get all the pictures by myself.  The story with sharks, rays and deep species bugging me day by day. Its a matter of luck and patience. I dont know if I will have that much time. But I will give a shot dive as often as possible and try to enlarge the list.

Another nice thing is you will get to see new pictures, when I got a better picture of that species I will upload that one. I don’t think that I will do many mistakes about the species names here as it is easier to identify. I will consult some of the taxonomy people in the scientific community for fishes as well. If you get to find a mistake please leave a message.

This site is for you. So please don’t leave me alone here. Visit often and leave a comment.

Waiting for your support all the time.

So till the next post for fishes, keep tight!

Plesae do visit every now and then.

thanks,

mert