Macro vs Big Animals: Two Completely Different Ways to See the Ocean
After more than 2,000 dives behind me, I can admit it: I’m a macro diver. Not because sharks and large pelagic life aren’t impressive. They are. But there are only…
Author: Irina Khlopunova
Irina took her first dive in 2003 and has never really surfaced since. An underwater photographer and videographer, she has made more than two thousand dives across Indonesia, the Philippines, the Maldives, and the Red Sea. For the past few years Irina has lived in Sharm El Sheikh with her husband, marine life photographer, and book author Andrey Ryanskiy. Together they explore and film the Red Sea’s hidden macro world - from tiny nudibranchs to rare fish never before recorded in the region. When she’s not under water, Irina runs the social media for Scuba Seekers and helps others discover the small wonders that make diving in Dahab and the Red Sea so addictive in the Facebook group Red Sea Marine Life. You can also follow her and Andrey on Facebook here and here.
Mapping the Unseen: Dahab Sea Slug Census 2026
A citizen science project to document nudibranch diversity in Dahab Every year around March, something strange and magical happens in Dahab. While much of the diving world flocks to warmer…
Melibe Colemani in Dahab: the Ghost Nudibranch Goes West
By Irina Khlopunova We are Andrey and Irina – passionate divers, underwater photographers, and citizen scientists. Much of our free time goes into documenting marine life of the Red Sea…