Spiral Pacific: Exploring Ocean Ecosystem Connectivity

08/09/2025

Views from the East Coast - Gloucester and Onawa Maine

04/09/2025

Was up in Santa Ynez wine tasting this weekend and tonight it’s the Stereophonics. Just living life!

03/17/2023

Events The First HDS Explorer Mission By Jon Council Jan 6, 2023 6 min read 404 views The Historical Diving Society presents: The First HDS Explorer Mission AN HISTORIC DIVE TRIP May 8-12, 2023 • Key Largo, FL Experience exclusive activities and meet icons of diving history! The First HDS Explorer...

03/17/2023

Hey Dive Buddies - Cynthia Matzke has joined the Board of Directors for the Historical Diving Society, and will be helping coordinate and lead this inaugural trip. Scholarships are available for dive enthusiasts under 26 years of age. Reach out to Cynthia Matzke for details.

Events The First HDS Explorer Mission By Jon Council Jan 6, 2023 6 min read 130 views The Historical Diving Society presents: The First HDS Explorer Mission AN HISTORIC DIVE TRIP May 8-12, 2023 • Key Largo, FL Experience exclusive activities and meet icons of diving history! The First HDS Explorer...

11/21/2022

This weekend brought a sad sight to the opposite end of Nova Scotia – late in the day on Friday a live s***m whale stranded on the shore of western Cape Breton Island. The approximate 40’ animal was incredibly thin and passed through the night.

MARS has been working with colleagues with the Canadian Wildlife Health Cooperative - Atlantic Veterinary College - AVC and NS Department of Natural Resources and Renewables to ensure a necropsy can be conducted to determine why this animal died. At this time, we do not know why this animal died.

Unfortunately, the animal is not currently in an accessible area so needs to be towed to an appropriate location. Given the incoming weather, this likely won’t be until later this week.

Thank you to all those who reported this animal as well as Fisheries and Oceans Canada personnel and fisheries officers and our MARS volunteer, Liz, for gathering important information to help us determine what can be done.

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Photo contributed to MARS by J. Bond

02/27/2022

Creativity with acoustic monitoring. Brilliant.

Elephant seals will help scientists monitor secretive marine mammals in the deep ocean.

01/06/2022

The photographer Amos Nachoum has a wonderful gift for capturing unique perspectives! It would be great to join one of his Master Class trips someday...say 2022?

Behind the scene - from the predator (striped Marlin) point of view. As the Striped Marlin become so popular and many people arriving with cameras small or big. I asked myself how can I take a different picture of the same event of predation. As most people chase the sardine and the Marlins most images are from the back or tail of sardine and the marlin. The sardine ball typically run into the sun in way to confuse the attacking marlin. I had to work hard free diving swimming in front of the bait ball, capturing the image I had in my mind…I wanted you the viewer to see the Marlin eyes 👀 as it is focus on its bait - I hope I did it, your feedback is welcome. Nikon D850, Lens 14 -24mm, ISO 640, 1/500sec. f/5.6 - Seacam housing. #

08/12/2021

Wonderful memories of Spiral Pacific's first trip to the Arctic. We're scheduled to go back to Norway in November to engage in a women's leadership program and to study orcas and humpbacks feeding in the fjords. This time our founder Cynthia Matzke will be joined by SP production coordinator Evin Rose who joins the group as the youngest team member of this group of polar explorers.

The two women from Iqaluit were part of an expedition that held clinics in two Arctic communities to raise awareness about ocean science.

08/03/2021

SP's founder Cynthia Matzke was supposed to be leaving for Tonga today to snorkel with and film humpbacks, but alas, that trip was postponed. Instead, Cynthia and Evin Rose are headed to Norway this winter to see the humpbacks feeding in the fjords! The water won't be quite as clear, but orcas and humpbacks feeding together on the herring is unforgettable.

It seems that as every year goes by Humpback whales are slowly regaining their trust in humans despite nearly being forced to extinction by them. In the last...

07/12/2021

Nothing like hiking a forest with friends.