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Roger Steene: An extraordinary force

Lyle Jnr says: "Roger Steene is a legendary photographer, researcher, and commentator. We're quite pleased that he's allowed us to use his photos in the CM Species Care Atlas. Roger's a one of a kind."

You can order copies of Roger's definitive Fish of the Coral Reef throuigh your online Stocklist.

Research

Acoustic tagging of a large potato cod.Our respect for the sea motivates us to know more. Since inception Cairns Marine has supported and participated in research programs that inform our understanding of the sea and its amazing creatures. With tens-of-thousands of hours of dive experience held collectively among our staff we feel we know our stuff, and yet with all that experience comes a powerful sense of what we don't know. Research is key to better practices and a smarter, more sustainble future. 

 

Fish spawning aggregations and the future of fishing

A spawning aggregation of fish is a grouping of a single species in higher-than-usual numbers for the purpose of reproduction. I bet you're glad we’ve got that off our chest!  Check out the secret sex life of the coral trout...

Unseen but always present

Professional divers and dedicated explorers of oceans often relate stories of how they felt "something is watching" while they're in the deep.

Unseen eyes just out of the range of human vision, or camouflaged invisibly in the habitat, it's a reminder that we are the aliens in this amazing other-world.

And it also reminds us of the connections we share with all living beings. A certain kind of communication happens when eyes meet: even when one pair of eyes is behind a sheet of tempered glass and the other pair is gazing through unblinking orbs adapted for the inky depths.