👾 A single breath beneath the surface is all it takes to enter another world! 🔍 Can anyone help me with ID of these images (hydroids?) ? #snorkelling #freediving #underwater #underwaterphotography #saltwaterlife #marinelife
Dr Lauren Smith
@saltwaterlifeuk.bsky.social
🤿 Marine Biologist focusing on elasmobranchs 🌊 Project Manager for an environmental non-profit 🏔️ Munro bagger 170/282 ⚽️ 🦁 AVFC fan
✏️ A couple of weeks ago i FINALLY made time to start sketching again! Literally haven’t done this for years, but really enjoyed being absorbed by this little project. Will endeavour to do more and hopefully improve! #sketching #art #puffin #wildlife #nature
🦈 Great to connect with my pal Dr Steph Smith and provide a wee comment for her Blue Shark blog piece: vet.ed.ac.uk/global-agric... #blueshark #shark #worldconservationday
Blue shark sighting informs conservation research | Global Agriculture and Food Systems | The Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies
Dr Steph Smith reflects on a rare encounter with a blue shark in Weymouth Harbour and explores what its behaviour might tell experts about this near-threatened species. Images and video by Dr Scott De...
vet.ed.ac.uk
🪼 🌧️ The natural world doesn’t hurry, perform, or demand to be seen. It simply exists. Slow down. Observe. Breathe. Sometimes the greatest sense of peace isn’t something we find—it’s something we notice has been there all along. 💙 #underwater #jellyfish #marinelife #nature #saltwaterlife
A lovely afternoon on the cliffs getting a few more snaps of the Atlantic Puffins before they head back out to sea until next season! The buffeting winds allowed me to capture some arial acrobatics, including one that passed just over my head! #puffin #seabird #birdphotography #nature #wildlife
Well, that match really surprised me in the end! Thoroughly enjoyable 😁 ⚽️
⛰️ Ciste Dhubh bagged yesterday (on my bday 🎉 ) 170/282 done now only 112 to go 🤪 The forecast was ideal, sun and cloud with a little atmospheric mist. Plus lots of burns and bogs for Tattie! #munrobagging #hillwalking #scotland @walkhighlands.co.uk
Sea Slug Soiree 😉 🧵 1/2 Did you know that Sea Slugs (Nudibranchs) are simultaneous hermaphrodites? Meaning they have both male and female reproductive organs. #seaslug #nudibranch #marinelife #underwaterphotography #snorkelling
🐾 SUP adventure time with Tattie 💚 Perfect conditions today to take out my early birthday present! Tattie was desperate to come along and she was AWESOME, super alert watching the fish jump and just content to be with me! #standuppaddle #spaniel #oceanadventures #saltwaterlife #scotland
Some of my favourite pics of Atlantic Puffins that i’ve taken this season! #puffins #seabirds #wildlife #nature #birdphotography @steelyseabirder.bsky.social @whysharksmatter.bsky.social 😉
🤿🧵 1/4 The Scottish Wildlife Trust’s “Snorkelling for All” in collaboration with @bsacdivers.bsky.social was one of the best things I have taken part in with our fantastic ocean community! 💙 A big thank you to everyone who took part & supported the event. #snorkelling #snorkellingforall #underwater
🤿 Kit prepped and packed! Hitting the road to Hopeman for the @bsacdivers.bsky.social and Scottish Wildlife Trust’s collaborative “Snorkelling for All” Celebration Event this weekend! #snorkelling #snorkellingforall
A shark that can walk with most of its body out of the water, found on the shores of Papua New Guinea, has been identified as a new species. www.newscientist.com/article/2530...
Walking shark found in Papua New Guinea is new to science
Hemiscyllium dudgeonae is the tenth recorded species of walking shark, which use their pectoral fins to move across reef flats, and its limited range means it may be at high risk of extinction
newscientist.com
“For all that people build, break, and forget, the world remains beautiful. And if you make the effort to seek it— to walk, to climb, to stand still— you find that beauty was always there, waiting between the mountains and the open sky.” #hillwalking #freeverse #scotland @walkhighlands.co.uk
🌞 ⛰️ Solstice Summit! Outstanding forecast today, the stunning Ben Vorlich (~ Loch Lomond) is in the bag 🙌 169 of 282 ✅ #hillwalking #munro #summersolstice #outdoors #scotland @walkhighlands.co.uk
🤿 A few notable nudibranchs from a recent dive 💙🤌 #nudibranchs #seaslug #underwaterphotography #diving #ocean #marinelife
Fantastic new GCSE available for those in England, Wales & NI! Hopefully it may inspire Scotland to introduce a similar equivalent? I would have taken this if it would have been an option back in the day! #naturalhistory #gcse #education #nature #wildlife www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Natural history GCSE to teach teenagers to plant wildflower-friendly gardens
Long-awaited course to examine human effects on natural world and explore everyday ways to aid biodiversity
theguardian.com
Feel like I’m starting to build up a rapport with the Shannies I visit regularly at a particular spot! Great little characters! #shanny #fish #underwaterphotography #freediving #saltwaterlife #marinelife
🤿 Another session the other week back at Boddam! 📸 I think that’s probably as far as I can take that split shot on my wee compact of the lighthouse & kelp, but really like it! 🪼 Lots of jellyfish reflections & a snap of my work colleague too 😎 #underwaterphotography #marinelife
🦈 A couple of the usual eye roll sections on this page, fortunately my quote is more or less intact 😅 Regardless, it’s exciting news and great to see this footage of a great white in the central Mediterranean! www.dailymail.com/sciencetech/...
Geat white shark recorded underwater in Mediterranean for first time
The footage is believed to be the first ever captured of an adult great white shark in the Mediterranean Sea in his natural habitat.
dailymail.com
🦈 Fantastic rare footage released this #WorldOceansDay of a Great White in the Central Mediterranean! #greatwhiteshark #shark www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
'Pretty special': Diver on filming rare footage of Great White shark in the Mediterranean
A volunteer diver has described shaking as he filmed his encounter with an endangered Great White shark between Tunisia and Sicily.
bbc.co.uk
🤿 💧 TAKE A DIVE WITH ME THIS WORLD OCEANS DAY! Happy #WorldOceansDay 2026! Here’s just a small snippet from below the surface of the Moray Firth! #underwater #freediving #snorkelling #divediscoverdefend #saltwaterlife #marinelife #morayfirth #scotland
🤿 A rather lovely Facelina auriculata #nudibranch I was pleased to spot this one on a deeper section of kelp whilst #freediving the other week, it’s quite challenging to try & get a good snap of something only a few cm’s long whilst apnea diving though! #seaslug #underwaterphotography #marinelife
🪼My best ever snap of a #SeaGooseberry (Pleurobrachia pileus)! These comb jellies are pretty small, getting to about the size of a marble! The iridescence is caused by the refraction of light through rows of tiny hair-like cilia (called “combs”) cont… #underwaterphotography #freediving 🌊 🤿
🤿 On the 24th & 25th May conditions in the Moray Firth were PHENOMENAL! Incredibly calm & the visibility was excellent! 📷 Loved capturing the views amongst the kelp forests & looking down to see decent sized Saithe/Coley! #snorkelling #freediving #underwaterphotography #marinelife #scotland
