Mike Walsh will present photographs from a trip taken in October 2008 to
visit Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Certain parts of
Indonesia are considered the center of marine bio-diversity. The Lembeh
Strait affords the opportunity to find some of the most unique, rarest
and poisonous marine creatures. The bottom of the strait is mostly black
volcanic sand leaving few places for the creatures to hide. Although, it
still takes a sharp eye to find them!
Mike Walsh is an avid scuba diver with a log book approaching 1000 dives
ranging from the lobster infested New England coast line to the crystal
clear cenotes of the Yucatan to the warm/exotic waters of the south
pacific.
Among a wide variety of diving experiences, Mike has searched for 20
million year old shark teeth fossils in the deep/dark rivers of the
southeastern US, recovered artifacts from a sunken World War II German
UBoat off Rhode Island and explored shipwrecks in Massachusetts Bay.
His most memorable dives include encountering sabre toothed tiger
remains on the floor of an underwater cave in Mexico, coming eye to eye
with a humpback whale just off the Rockport, MA shore and swimming with
the worlds largest Manta Rays around a remote Pacific island.
Mike received his open water certification in 1980 and has since earned
trimix and cave certifications. Mike took up underwater photography in
2000 and now spends his warm water dive time hunting down the most
exotic photographic subjects as passionately as he spends his cold water
dive time hunting down good old New England lobsters and scallops.
visit Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Certain parts of
Indonesia are considered the center of marine bio-diversity. The Lembeh
Strait affords the opportunity to find some of the most unique, rarest
and poisonous marine creatures. The bottom of the strait is mostly black
volcanic sand leaving few places for the creatures to hide. Although, it
still takes a sharp eye to find them!
Mike Walsh is an avid scuba diver with a log book approaching 1000 dives
ranging from the lobster infested New England coast line to the crystal
clear cenotes of the Yucatan to the warm/exotic waters of the south
pacific.
Among a wide variety of diving experiences, Mike has searched for 20
million year old shark teeth fossils in the deep/dark rivers of the
southeastern US, recovered artifacts from a sunken World War II German
UBoat off Rhode Island and explored shipwrecks in Massachusetts Bay.
His most memorable dives include encountering sabre toothed tiger
remains on the floor of an underwater cave in Mexico, coming eye to eye
with a humpback whale just off the Rockport, MA shore and swimming with
the worlds largest Manta Rays around a remote Pacific island.
Mike received his open water certification in 1980 and has since earned
trimix and cave certifications. Mike took up underwater photography in
2000 and now spends his warm water dive time hunting down the most
exotic photographic subjects as passionately as he spends his cold water
dive time hunting down good old New England lobsters and scallops.
