Guadalupe fur seals, floating upside down underwater over a rocky reef covered with golden kelp at Guadalupe Island.
Guadalupe fur seal, floating upside down under the ocean's surface at Guadalupe Island, watching the photographer and looking for passing predators.
A great white shark opens it mouth just before it attacks its prey with a crippling, powerful bite. After the prey has been disabled, the shark will often wait for it to weaken from blood loss before resuming the attack. If the shark looses a tooth in the course of the bite, a replacement just behind it will move forward to take its place.
A great white shark swims through the clear waters of Isla Guadalupe, far offshore of the Pacific Coast of Mexico's Baja California. Guadalupe Island is host to a concentration of large great white sharks, which visit the island to feed on pinnipeds and use it as a staging area before journeying farther into the Pacific ocean.
A great white shark swims underwater through the ocean at Guadalupe Island.
California sea lion and diver consider each other, underwater in the clear ocean water of Guadalupe Island.
A northern elephant seal hovers underwater over a rocky bottom along the coastline of Guadalupe Island.
Guadalupe fur seal pup sits on brown rocks along the coastline of Guadalupe Island.
Guadalupe Island at sunrise, panorama. Volcanic coastline south of Pilot Rock and Spanish Cove, near El Faro lighthouse.
Punta Norte, the northern point of Guadalupe Island, viewed from the north. Punta Desfiladero (Blunt Point) and Roca Elefante are just visible at far right, and Roca Piloto (Pilot Rock) is see to the left of the island against the distant sweep of the cliffs that comprise the northeastern bight of the island, actually the rim of an enormous caldera.
California sea lion.
Pacific bottlenose dolphin swimming offshore of Guadalupe Island, Mexico.
A great white shark swims just below the rippled ocean surface of Isla Guadalupe, far offshore of the Pacific Coast of Baja California.
A great white shark underwater. A large great white shark cruises the clear oceanic waters of Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe).
Guadalupe Island, dark and gloomy clouds, northern approach.
Sunrise on morros near south end of Guadalupe Island.
God Beams at Sunset, Guadalupe Island.
Sunrise over the Pacific Ocean, cloudless, viewed from Guadalupe Island.
A great white shark swims just below the rippled ocean surface of Isla Guadalupe, far offshore of the Pacific Coast of Baja California.
Dorsal fin of a great white shark breaks the surface as the shark swims just below.
Diver silhouette.
Cortez chubb.
Waves crashing on Isla Afuera east cliffs.
California sea lion.
California sea lion mother and pup swimming over kelp-covered reef at the base of Isla Afuera, Guadalupe Island, Mexico.
Guadalupe fur seal, adult male in territorial posture.
Isla Afuera, Guadalupe Island, daybreak.
Boat Horizon below eastern cliffs of Isla Afuera, sunrise.
Isla Adentro (right) and Church Rock (partially obscured), sunrise.
Chris Thompson and yellowfin tuna speared at Guadalupe Island.
Clouds held back by island crest, near the north end of Guadalupe Island off the coast of Baja California, Mexico.
East face and shoreline of southernmost morro, daybreak.
Purple jellyfish, open ocean.
Volcanic cones, landscape, south end of Isla Guadalupe.
Isla Adentro, daybreak.
Swallowtail damselfish.
Guadalupe cardinalfish.
Diver and sheephead amidst giant palm kelp. Southern sea palm.
Isla Afuera and skiff.
Old church, prison and fishing shack.
Mexican hogfish, adult male showing fleshy bump on head.
A group of juvenile and female Guadalupe fur seals rest and socialize over a shallow, kelp-covered reef. During the summer mating season, a single adjult male will form a harem of females and continually patrol the underwater boundary of his territory, keeping the females near and intimidating other males from approaching.
Sunrise clouds and light, panorama, viewed from Guadalupe Island over the Pacific Ocean.
Pilot Rock and Guadalupe Island.
Shark cages in water, astern of M/V Horizon. Large, strong aluminum cages protect divers while they are in the water viewing sharks.
North Pacific Yellowtail.
El Secreto del Vicki cavern. Vicki's Secret, a huge underwater cave on the southwest side of Guadalupe Island, few if any other SCUBA divers have seen this cave much less know of its existence. Shown here is Vicki Beaver one of the first divers ever to explore the cave.
Guadalupe Island at sunrise, panorama. Volcanic coastline south of Pilot Rock and Spanish Cove, near El Faro lighthouse.
Viewing northern elephant seals along the beach, from the vessel Horizon, at Guadalupe Island.
California sea lion.
California sea lion.
Common dolphin leaping.
Guadalupe fur seal, hauled out upon volcanic rocks along the shoreline of Guadalupe Island.
Dark water, clouds at days end, cliffs, sunset.
Kelp and volcanic shoreline rocks, half and half view, at waters edge.
Kelp in motion, swaying back and forth in ocean surge and waves, blurred due to long time exposure.
Great white shark, underwater.
Guadalupe fur seal.
Guadalupe fur seal.
Scythe-marked butterflyfish.
Red volcanic cinder cone at south end of Isla Guadalupe.
Feral goat atop ridge at sunset.
Kelp covered wall of Isla Afuera, diver.
Diver and sunburst.
Cortez chubb including golden phase.
Pilot Rock (Roca Pilote), a undersea spire which extends 100 out of the water, stands below the immense seacliffs and morning clouds at the north end of Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), far offshore of the Baja California peninsula.
Pilot Rock (Roca Pilote), a undersea spire which extends 100 out of the water, stands below the immense seacliffs and morning clouds at the north end of Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe), far offshore of the Baja California peninsula.
Isla Afuera is a volcanic plug towering 700 feet above the ocean near the south end of Guadalupe Island. Its steep cliffs extend underwater hundreds of feet offering spectacular wall diving and submarine topography.
Clouds at sunset, rich warm colors and patterns.
Mike hovers over kelp covered reef, Isla Guadalupe, Mexico.
Scythe-marked butterflyfish.
Kelp covered wall of Isla Afuera.
Boat Horizon near Red Cone.
Southern sea palm.
Spiny lobster in rocky crevice.
Craig OConnor and his pending spearfishing world record North Pacific yellowtail (77.4 pounds), taken on a breathold dive with a band-power speargun near Abalone Point. Guadalupe Island is home to enormous yellowtail. The three most recent spearfishing world records for Northern yellowtail have been taken at Guadalupe. July 2004.