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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Night dive with the locals in NJ We fought the current on the way out to have an easy ride back to the entrance/exit point. 73F, 60min dive 🤿🐙🦑🦀

A massive rusty colored horseshoe crab stares directly down the camera lens

A local starfish and an invasive blue anemone rest on a bed of baby mussels

A hermit crab peeks out of his rounded, oddly shaped home

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Some fantastic conditions last weekend diving offshore in NJ. Easily 40 ft visibility, 72F at the top, 52 at 120ft. The jellyfish deco gauntlet on the way back up felt like a level from Mario Bros-i could've done with one of the invincible stars 🐙🦑🦀🐟🐠🤿

From 100ft looking up through the wreck, the rusty metal shipwreck recedes into the distant green water. Fishes are seen in silhouette against the brighter surface

A view of the tie in attaching the dive boat to the wreck looking up.

The water is littered with stingy jellyfish, making for exciting decompression stops on the way back to the surface

Some cold water anemones, swinging in the current attached to the rusty metal wreck

A cluster of yellow and orange cold water anemones- some are open and filter feeding while others are closed.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Folks, this is an URGENT situation- this friend has since passed away and these cats need IMMEDIATE care. Anyone in driving distance of NYC who can take them in please get in touch with Shecky things are looking desperate.

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Photos from Sunday's shore dive. It was a toasty 78°F and a nice 65min dive before the tide started to really move again

A northern puffer and a starfish in deep green water

A sea robin on rocks with it's weird legs and wing like fins out. It's eye is iridescent green and blue

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Trash toys are the best toys! Blinky likes milk carton pull tabs. I probably have a dozen of them stashed away

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Ausarchosaur @ausarchosaur.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Looks like a seahorse, but it’s not. It evolved the same body plan independently! journaloflostspecies.org/index.php/jl...

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Meg Mindlin @invertebabe.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

New research just dropped today that makes octopuses even weirder than they already are… let me explain🧵🧪🐙🐡🦑

OCTOPUSES JUST GOT WEIRDER
Featuring an illustration of a two spot octopus with a blue and purple ribosome behind it

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

A crab on the move from our Monday night shore dive in NJ. Big boy was on the move 🦀🤿🦑🐙

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A horseshoe crab from last night's shore dive in NJ. Ive never noticed how red the feets of a horseshoe crab can be! 72°F, 20+ft of viz, 55min dive 🐙🦑🐟🐠🤿🦀

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It took social media by storm, but it didn’t work for all the reasons that ocean plastic pollution experts said it wouldn’t work all along. My latest for The Revelator tells this important story and asks what we can learn from it. Please enjoy. therevelator.org/why-ocean-cl...

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Why The Ocean Cleanup Hasn’t Solved the Plastic Pollution Crisis • The Revelator

Global problems are rarely solved by one person or invention. The Ocean Cleanup didn’t work, for the reasons experts said it wouldn’t. What can we learn from this?

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

So grateful for the opportunity to dive the wrecks of Chuuk, Lagoon last week. 🦑🤿🐟🐠🐙

A magenta anenome in the foreground with the side of the Kensho Maru in the background in shades of green and blue

A view from below- a silohoutte of a diver as he ascends out of the hold of the Kensho Maru

A rusty handle to a large power station within the Kensho Maru

Spare parts in the machine shop of the Kensho Maru

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Some fishy bait ball soup from the wreck of the Spar off Morehead City in NC last weekend 🦑🐙🐟🐠🤿

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Drove to NC over the weekend to get some warmup dives in as the season kicks off. This is from the wreck of the Aeolus in 110ft of water. On the breather, the fish just seem to ignore me! It's really incredible 🦈🤿🦑

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Saw this guy from the parking lot. He was upside down and I was afraid he was dead but i went to flip him anyway Picked him up and he moved! Even better, he has a tag! Horseshoe crabs might look dangerous but they're completely harmless with no way to hurt you even if they wanted to 🦑🐙🦀

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Do you like the ocean? Wildlife? Oceans? Please add your voice to the opposition against tripling the catch limits on many species of Atlantic sharks in the US. We only have 10 days fishdefender.org/NOAAcomments...

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NOAA comments - fishdefender.org

Raise your voice for US sharks. Under pressure from fishing industry claims that sharks have become 'overpopulated', NOAA Fisheries has proposed multiplying the daily limit of Atlantic sharks recreati...

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Cave diving can be incredible but even the most experienced tech divers I know have a healthy respect for the skills it takes to do it and come home alive.

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

One of my favorite new to me fishes! I love their smokey black eyeliner and their stripey baby outfits

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Something isn't right here

Brady tkachuk does not play for the bruins and is not named Pasternak

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

BBQ chicken leg from a huge smoker outside the St Pete Times rink before a Bolts game. Honorable mentions: full size NJD plastic helmet full of popcorn, smoked meat poutine at The Bell Centre

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

I don't know why but images from space like this always leave me in tears. It also doesn't fail to leave me utterly go smacked that this is being live streamed. #artemisII

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Hey Blinky! You're so fine! You're so fine you blow my mind! Hey Blinky!

A tiny black cat plays on a grey carpeted stair. She's on her back with her front paws dug I to the stair above her head. Her huge eyeball peeks out from under the stair and her paws.

Her mouth is wide open in the best looking kitty laugh

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I've only ever spotted one frogfish during a dive. I'm sure I've "seen" loads and thought they were just part of the reef. Love these weirdos!

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I think I need a fact check on the not so fun fact

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Biblically accurate angel

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

This is one of the reasons I tell my dentist all about my diving and dive trips 😱

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Aliens are here and they live in the ocean. It has been too long since my last blackwater dive!

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Gull just doing gull things at the ferry terminal this morning. Going on the reactions from the staff, he is a regular

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Seascapes from Salt Pier, Bonaire 🦑🪸🤿🐟

Clear blue water stretches to a sun dappled surface overhead. Submerged pier pillars reach towards the sky while a school of grunts hides in the shadows

A more aqua colored view under the pillars of salt pier- a lone sergeant major fish is in the foreground while the sun filters through the surface in the background

Two fragile looking glass sponges emerge from the bottom, as pillars from the pier arch away. A rebreather diver is in the deep blue background

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Critters big and small from Bonaire. I have no idea what the bright ruddy orange guy is- I just thought he was cute 🦑🐙🐟🤿

A blenny pokes his head out of his soft frilly hidey hole. His big green googly eyes take up most of his head and his lower lip juts out in a funny looking frown

A cleaner shrimp hangs upside down from a rock and a hermit crab sits right side up on the rocks below

A weird looking bright red itty bitty on a rock

A spotted eagle ray gliding through the water during a night dive

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Some enchanting garden eels in 115 ft of water, Bonaire 🐙🪸🦑🤿🐟

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I wish I could reread this book for the first time. Excited!

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I've said it before and I'll say it again- football has the best names

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

If this is from the Spiegel Grove, I think I met this grouper back in Dec during CCR Mod certification 🦑🤿🐟

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

And here I am with only a mini panther to pet

A miniature house panther lying on her side and doing a big stretch with front paws towards the camera. She has big green eyes and a snaggle tooth.

She looks very soft

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

@greenleejw.bsky.social I got excited about your @ name but then read your description about being a surprised historian, not a surprised eel. Every time I see an eel, I hear them say "Surprise!" and for a moment thought I was no longer alone 😭

Googly eyed sock puppets saying surprise

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I don't know who needs to hear this: Walmart has giant plushie marine life that you can just buy. I left without the spotted eagle ray but I might need to go back for him this week. In the meantime, meet Sledge the hammerhead shark 🦑🐙🦈

A photo of me holding a giant plushie hammerhead shark in one arm and a giant plushie eagle ray in the other.

The plushies are huge, easily 4-5 feet long.
I'm smiling like a deranged idiot.

Sledge, the 5ft long hammerhead plushie smiling a toothy smile on my sofa.

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

You mean I *CAN* pet them???

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Some of the tiny creatures we saw in the Banda Sea- I love being able to pick a spot, stop, and see so much life around me. 🐙🦑🤿🐟🪸

A tiny furry purple crab on a barrel sponge

An orange and black nudi with white gills and ehinophores

A purple, pink orange and white dartfish

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

It was so much fun to meet sea creatures like sea snakes/kraits who don't live in the Atlantic/Caribbean, different types of hard and soft corals that are thriving despite VERY warm water temps and to see familiar fish shapes in new flavors and color patterns. 🐙🦑🤿🐟

Banded sea krait making a very snakey shape, almost mimicking an infinity symbol on a colorful background of yellow and red

A pair of ornate butterflyfish take shelter under plates of hard coral.

A royal(?) angelfish swims in the background

A very pregnant dark purple puffer with very white teeth gives me the eyeball while swimming away from a barrel sponge and a few orange squirrel fish

Seascape with yellow hored and white grabby hand coral surrounded by orange and brown sponges on a deep blue ocean

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

More from Ambon, a ribbon eel, a pair of sea slugs, a super sneaky stonefish and a lionfish 🦑🐙🤿🐟

Ribbon eel in black with a white chin stripe and a jaunty mustache sticks it's head out of a tiny hole to say SURPRISE!

Two sea slugs in black with white and yellow spots

A stone fish eyeballs the camera- he perfectly matches the colors of the rocks around him

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

The Banda Sea brought the goods on the very first dive! Flamboyant and reef cuttlefish and morays in new(to me) colors. Wow. 🦑🐙🤿

Flamboyant cuttlefish making shapes with its limbs. It's gold, black and green

Two cuttlefish trying to hypnotize me into leaving them alone. It didn't work

Another cuttlefish making scawwy shapes to scare me away

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

We have been spoiled with amazing offshore dives this year. Warm water even at depth with great visibility! 🦑🤿🐟

Close up of orange cold water corals attached to the side of a rusty metal shipwreck

Cold water shellfish and hydroids in the foreground, a rebreather diver and the rusty metal railing of a shipwreck in the background

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I adore these conger eels( or American eels? There's been debate!) They're so googly-eyed and the wreck we dove was full of them! 🐟🤿🦑

A grey blue eel pokes his weird round face out of a rusty hole in 80 ft of water. His eyes are round and look like stick on goggly eyes. His chin is white and juts out in an under bite

No eels here, just a rusty curled bit of shipwreck covered in cold water corals in oranges and white. The background water is deep teal

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Cheesin for the camera 🦈

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Chris Dwan (he/him) @somershade.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Cross post from my professional life, because I like the story: Sometime in 2008 or so, I was doing work at a NASA data center at the Langley Air Force Base in Hampton Roads, Virginia. While there, I met a person who remains one of my all-time consulting heros and idols. 1/?

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Football truly has the best names in sports

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Been dealing with dental runaround healthcare nightmare this week. Dentist/oral surgeon number 3 is finally just pulling this tooth after 2 nights of no sleep. Never been so happy to be in the dental chair

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Some shots from Shark River Inlet, taken Monday evening. 🦑🦀🤿🐟🐙

a burrfish covered in yellow spines, black and white stripes, with black spots near its fins tries to swim away from me as fast as his little fins will flap.

His eye is iridescent green.

a bluey/purpley fish pokes its head out of red and green seaweed.

a hermit crab crawls across the sandy substrate- his tippy taps are visible under his helmet

a flatflsh ripples like a magic carpet over a bed of baby mussels

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ESG @ev0lemi.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Some Ling fish and some spotted skates seen on a wreck dive off the coast of NJ I've never seen skates in the water before and you can hear me "ooo!" through my regulator 🦑🐟🤿🐙

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