Melanie from Auckland Museum phoned the Braveheart this morning to ask if we’d felt the big magnitude 6.1 earthquake that was recorded in this part of the world mid-morning, but none of us here on boat noticed anything. Mind you

The seabird life on these islands is incredible. This photo of the sky above North Meyer Island was taken at dusk last night, when the birds wheel around in great numbers. Yesterday, as we were bobbing at the surface of

Sunday morning and we’ve just circumnavigated Macauley Island in the hope we might be able to dive by Haszard Island on the eastern side. But no such luck – the seas are too big and the wind too strong for

The little fish Malcolm is holding is commonly called a bar-tailed goatfish, and has the scientific name Upeneus francisi, after Malcolm Francis. The name was bestowed by Jack Randall from Hawaii, who described the fish. The person who describes a

We’re about to bid farewell to Raoul, and head south to Macauley Island. We’ll be island hopping our way south for the next week, and hoping for good weather, as there are no sheltered anchorages at the smaller islands. Our

Lots of your comments have mentioned wanting to be here with us and we know we’re lucky! Because the opportunity to get to the Kermadecs doesn’t come along very often, and because there are many marine experts with different interests

There was a LOT of excitement on the back deck when the fish team came across these two lovelies in the collections. And the excitement levels got even higher when no-one could identify one of them – which means it

Time to keep dry feet for a while longer, and catch up with what botanist Peter has been doing. He has managed to get ashore and check out the plants on most of the steep little islands that lie just

We are all enjoying the diving up here. There is great visibility, usually more than 30 metres (and I heard someone raving about 40 metre plus visibility after one dive yesterday!). The water can be a little milky, and