Emerging: A Freediving Exploration
See what it's like to Emerging Freediving off the coast of remote Pemba Island, in this creative and exciting underwater film.
Renee illustrates her incredible exploration, freediving along Njou Gap's Trigge...
Attack Triggerfish
An unfriendly giant Attack Triggerfish during a scuba dive off the coast of Pemba Island. Photo was taken by Renee Blundon, seconds after the massive fish attacked a fellow diver, biting the diver's fin dur...
Free-Diving at Njao Gap
Renee Blundon free diving at Njao Gap reef of Pemba Island. The warm, crystal clear water is paradise for any diver. Photo by Alan Sutton. For more photos and videos click here
Photo taken on breath hold w...
Free-Diving at Njao Gap
Renee Blundon free-dives through a shoal of bait fish at Pemba Island's Njao Gap. Njao Gap, located in the north of Pemba Island, is a truly beautiful example of what the ocean should be like without the ef...
A “Deep” Cleaning
A video of dive instructor, Brad Crawford, getting a "deep" cleaning by cleaner shrimp in Njao Gap of Pemba Island.
Brad approaches a cleaning station on a wall of reef approximately 20 meters deep, full of ...
Spotted Hawkfish Inside A Sponge
A spotted hawkfish (Cirrhitichthys aprinus) inside a barrel sponge off the coast of Pemba Island. As its name suggests, the spotted hawkfish is a predatory fish that gets its name from its habit of sitting...
A Curious Boxfish
A curious boxfish (Ostracion meleagris) peers out from his coral enclave in Njao Gap, Pemba Island. Learn more at White Spotted Boxfish.
EQUIPMENT USED
Canon 7D
Ikelite 7D Housing
Twin Ikelite DS ...
The Eyes of a Mantis Shrimp
The eyes of a mantis shrimp are possibly the most advanced eyes of any known living organism. The eye is actually a compound eye , made up of a large number of individual "eyes" or photoreceptors called ommati...
Exploring on One Breath
Renee Blundon exploring a coral drop-off in Njao Gap on a single breath of air. For more photos and videos click here.
Photo taken on breath hold with a Canon VIXIA HF G30 HD Camcorder in an Ikelite Housin...
Some Stonefish!
This sure is some stonefish! Spotted off the coast of Pemba Island, 20 meters below in Fundu Gap, the brightly colored and intricately patterned fish (Synanceia verrucosa) was perched quietly on a ledge of ...
A “Deep” Cleaning
Dive instructor deep cleaning, Brad Crawford, from Swahili Divers, getting his teeth cleaned, 20 meters below by a cleaner shrimp. Photo taken at DF Milan Wall in the Fundu Gap of Pemba Island. For more pho...
Roboastra Luteolineata Nudibranch
Roboastra luteolineata is a sea slug known as a polycerid nudibranch, marine gastropod mollusc's in the family Polyceridae. The family Polyceridae is distinguished from other nudibranchs by having by having...
Trigger Wall Cave
Renee Blundon scubadives through a cave full of fish at Ngou Gap's Trigger Wall of Pemba Island. Big thanks to Brad Crawford at Swahili Divers for helping with the footage....
Pemba Nudibranch
A Roboastra Pemba Nudibranch or luteolineata nudibranch, photographed on the Colonel Edgar's Ascent reef wall in Njao Gap, Pemba Island. Learn more about Roboastra luteolineata nudibranches here.
Photo was...
A Colorful Shrimp
A beautifully Colorful Mantis Shrimp, photographed in Njao Gap of Pemba Island. Note the shrimp's compound eyes, which are made up of tens of thousands of ommatidia. Learn more about the eyes of a mantis sh...
Arriving on Pemba
Landing on Pemba Island feels as though we’ve been catapulted backward in time. Apart from the occasional new model vehicle, it could easily be the 1960's. Retro architecture juxtaposes the Arabic mosques a...
Free-Diving at Njao Gap
Renee Blundon free-dives to a 17 meter (55 feet) deep coral wall drop-off at Njao Gap, Pemba Island. For more photos and videos click here
Photo was extracted from video footage of a Canon VIXIA HF G30 HD ...