Phil
@landphil.bsky.social
Get kind of unbalanced when I haven't been in the ocean for a couple of days
🤿 The descriptively-named purple stripe jelly. This one joined me on the safety stop, wrapping up a beautiful Monterey dive
September 13, 2025 at 5:11 AM
🤿 The descriptively-named purple stripe jelly. This one joined me on the safety stop, wrapping up a beautiful Monterey dive
Reposted by Phil
Worm? Exploded alien accidentally landing in Monterey Bay? #wormwednesday 🤿
July 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Worm? Exploded alien accidentally landing in Monterey Bay? #wormwednesday 🤿
🤿 caught a thornback ray relaxing in the shallows. Beautiful vis here at 6 ft deep turned into thick snot below 15. So, this is the only video from Sunday’s dive
July 15, 2025 at 4:23 AM
🤿 caught a thornback ray relaxing in the shallows. Beautiful vis here at 6 ft deep turned into thick snot below 15. So, this is the only video from Sunday’s dive
Reposted by Phil
@echinoblog.bsky.social
Odd echinoderms in Monterey Bay on Saturday. Shoals of little sand dollars(sand nickels) @50ft. Also a sea cucumber half off a rock in an L shape. The photo of the exposed part looked extremely red? Also, white diseased urchins everywhere. What’s going on?
Odd echinoderms in Monterey Bay on Saturday. Shoals of little sand dollars(sand nickels) @50ft. Also a sea cucumber half off a rock in an L shape. The photo of the exposed part looked extremely red? Also, white diseased urchins everywhere. What’s going on?
July 1, 2025 at 3:08 AM
@echinoblog.bsky.social
Odd echinoderms in Monterey Bay on Saturday. Shoals of little sand dollars(sand nickels) @50ft. Also a sea cucumber half off a rock in an L shape. The photo of the exposed part looked extremely red? Also, white diseased urchins everywhere. What’s going on?
Odd echinoderms in Monterey Bay on Saturday. Shoals of little sand dollars(sand nickels) @50ft. Also a sea cucumber half off a rock in an L shape. The photo of the exposed part looked extremely red? Also, white diseased urchins everywhere. What’s going on?
Reposted by Phil
Researchers race to understand new disease killing Caribbean corals at unprecedented rates
Researchers race to understand new disease killing Caribbean corals at unprecedented rates
This May, divers found stony coral tissue loss disease on corals in Laughing Bird Caye National Park, Belize, for the first time. The team from Fragments of Hope, a nonprofit, regularly monitors the…
news.mongabay.com
June 7, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Researchers race to understand new disease killing Caribbean corals at unprecedented rates
Reposted by Phil
📣 This week is “World Ocean Week”, as such it seems quite an apt time to launch my newly updated and refreshed website!
🤿 Join me as Saltwater Life, and let’s Dive ~ Discover ~ Defend, our Ocean together.
saltwaterlife.co.uk
#saltwaterlifeuk #divediscoverdefend #website #worldoceanweek
🌊 🦑 🧪 🦈
🤿 Join me as Saltwater Life, and let’s Dive ~ Discover ~ Defend, our Ocean together.
saltwaterlife.co.uk
#saltwaterlifeuk #divediscoverdefend #website #worldoceanweek
🌊 🦑 🧪 🦈
Home - Saltwaterlife 2025
Saltwater Life dive discover defend Saltwater Life is a marine research and conservation organisation based in the UK. Dive into Marine Conservation Saltwater Life is passionate about the study, conse...
saltwaterlife.co.uk
June 4, 2025 at 8:01 AM
📣 This week is “World Ocean Week”, as such it seems quite an apt time to launch my newly updated and refreshed website!
🤿 Join me as Saltwater Life, and let’s Dive ~ Discover ~ Defend, our Ocean together.
saltwaterlife.co.uk
#saltwaterlifeuk #divediscoverdefend #website #worldoceanweek
🌊 🦑 🧪 🦈
🤿 Join me as Saltwater Life, and let’s Dive ~ Discover ~ Defend, our Ocean together.
saltwaterlife.co.uk
#saltwaterlifeuk #divediscoverdefend #website #worldoceanweek
🌊 🦑 🧪 🦈
Reposted by Phil
Reposted by Phil
Pretty little babies 🥰😍
The pearl octopus (Muusoctopus robustus) mates and nests in deep-sea thermal springs, where the warm water seeping from the seafloor accelerates the development of their embryos.
Learn more: www.mbari.org/animal/pearl...
The pearl octopus (Muusoctopus robustus) mates and nests in deep-sea thermal springs, where the warm water seeping from the seafloor accelerates the development of their embryos.
Learn more: www.mbari.org/animal/pearl...
May 21, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Pretty little babies 🥰😍
The pearl octopus (Muusoctopus robustus) mates and nests in deep-sea thermal springs, where the warm water seeping from the seafloor accelerates the development of their embryos.
Learn more: www.mbari.org/animal/pearl...
The pearl octopus (Muusoctopus robustus) mates and nests in deep-sea thermal springs, where the warm water seeping from the seafloor accelerates the development of their embryos.
Learn more: www.mbari.org/animal/pearl...
🤿 Did my yearly Reef Check recert dives yesterday- and I still need to get better at spotting those little abalone. Also, my old urchin-stabbed drysuit still leaks, even after fully patching and leak testing. It’s back onto the workbench for more patches before the first surveys start!
May 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🤿 Did my yearly Reef Check recert dives yesterday- and I still need to get better at spotting those little abalone. Also, my old urchin-stabbed drysuit still leaks, even after fully patching and leak testing. It’s back onto the workbench for more patches before the first surveys start!
Reposted by Phil
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Reposted by Phil
My #molluscmonday #melibe contribution. I feel like this cheating because it was in a tank, not in the wild.#weirdrulesisetformyself
May 5, 2025 at 6:40 PM
My #molluscmonday #melibe contribution. I feel like this cheating because it was in a tank, not in the wild.#weirdrulesisetformyself
Reposted by Phil
I think this is a worm. I also think it’s Wednesday. Found this in a touch tank. #WORMWEDNESDAY
May 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I think this is a worm. I also think it’s Wednesday. Found this in a touch tank. #WORMWEDNESDAY
🤿🌊🦑
I’m working on a project to determine if looking at ocean images could evoke feelings of awe.
It would be super helpful if you could scroll through the photos and select an emoji reflecting your level of awe-smile being the most awesome, frown the least.
pollunit.com/polls/6i_hnf...
It would be super helpful if you could scroll through the photos and select an emoji reflecting your level of awe-smile being the most awesome, frown the least.
pollunit.com/polls/6i_hnf...
May 5, 2025 at 4:46 PM
🤿🌊🦑
Reposted by Phil
I’m working on a project to determine if looking at ocean images could evoke feelings of awe.
It would be super helpful if you could scroll through the photos and select an emoji reflecting your level of awe-smile being the most awesome, frown the least.
pollunit.com/polls/6i_hnf...
It would be super helpful if you could scroll through the photos and select an emoji reflecting your level of awe-smile being the most awesome, frown the least.
pollunit.com/polls/6i_hnf...
May 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
I’m working on a project to determine if looking at ocean images could evoke feelings of awe.
It would be super helpful if you could scroll through the photos and select an emoji reflecting your level of awe-smile being the most awesome, frown the least.
pollunit.com/polls/6i_hnf...
It would be super helpful if you could scroll through the photos and select an emoji reflecting your level of awe-smile being the most awesome, frown the least.
pollunit.com/polls/6i_hnf...
Reposted by Phil
Ways not to greet your neighbours…
May 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Ways not to greet your neighbours…
Reposted by Phil
This is Gunner. He is a big strong dog who happens to not be able to sleep until he's tucked into bed with two pillows and his Eeyore stuffy. 13/10
May 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This is Gunner. He is a big strong dog who happens to not be able to sleep until he's tucked into bed with two pillows and his Eeyore stuffy. 13/10
Reposted by Phil
BREAKING NEWS: New water aerobics class gets off to a great start.
April 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
BREAKING NEWS: New water aerobics class gets off to a great start.
🤿 This was supposed to be a video of the tiniest brightest orange nudibranch with a hermit crab harassing it. But it didn’t start recording until I thought I had stopped it. Instead, I got an unintended minute of swimming over the reef for all of you gumboot chiton and coralline algae fans
April 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
🤿 This was supposed to be a video of the tiniest brightest orange nudibranch with a hermit crab harassing it. But it didn’t start recording until I thought I had stopped it. Instead, I got an unintended minute of swimming over the reef for all of you gumboot chiton and coralline algae fans
Reposted by Phil
ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
1/n
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
1/n
a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him
ALT: a cartoon of a man holding a frying pan and a spoon with red alert written above him
media.tenor.com
April 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
1/n
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
1/n
Reposted by Phil
Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing
Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing
WASHINGTON—Claiming that preservation efforts had impeded U.S. seafood production for far too long, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he had opened up the nation’s aquariums to commercia...
theonion.com
April 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing
Reposted by Phil
This is incredible. Wait about 20 seconds into this clip. 🙃
April 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
This is incredible. Wait about 20 seconds into this clip. 🙃
Reposted by Phil
Pizza night
April 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Pizza night
Reposted by Phil
Reposted by Phil
Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.
April 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.