Martina Balzarová - photographer, diver and biologistčeská verze

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Marine biology workshop report

4-3-2013
 

Meeting with the flatworms

Tiny flatworms are as beautiful as nudibranchs.

3-12-2010

Pygmy sea horses

What do we know about these unique tiny sea horses?

2-12-2010
 

Fish with airbag, how to outsmart predators

Underwater world is full of great predators who wait for their prey. But their prey is not always unarmed, there are many ways how to outsmart predators. I once witnessed how tiny little fish won her battle with grouper.

24-10-2009

Where fish go to sleep

Amazing stories are waiting even in the dark.

11-10-2009
 

Ghosts of the reefs

Among branches of soft corals and pieces of algae hover gorgeous creature known as ghost pipefish.

11-9-2009

Meeting with inimicus filamentosus

One of the dangerous fish from class Scorpaenidae, Inimicus or walkman carries poisonous spines on his back same way as his relatives scorpionfishes and stonefishes.

11-9-2009
 

Meeting with sea horses

Amazing creatures like sea horses suprises us for centuries.

11-9-2009

Meeting with seamoth

Like a real moths they show their beautiful wings, weird fish encrusted with special bone plates.

11-9-2009
 

Meeting with spotted shrimpfish

Looks like a sea grass but everything is not as it seems for the first time. Fishes swimming upside down mimic plants to stay alive.

11-9-2009

Thistlegorm

The world famous wreck of Thistlegorm in the Red Sea, lets dive and discover the spectacular history of this magnificent ship.

11-9-2009
 

On a scrap yard

Not everything that seems like a rubish under sea is totally bad.

11-5-2009

About lost remora

What possibly could happen to remora who lost his shark or turtle_

11-4-2009
 

In encircling

What it is like to be a part of fish shoal?

11-4-2009

My first shark

How I met my first shark.

11-10-2008
 

Spanish dancer

One of the biggest species of nudibranch is showing it´s beautiful creations.

11-10-2008