Reasonably well-behaved critters of Bridlington Bay No Take Zone, including velvet swimming crabs 🦀, dabs and plaice 🐟, and a lesser spotted dogfish 🦈 all making appearances for day 5 of #Crustmas and #25DaysOfFishmas. 🎄🎉🦑

Residents of an inshore Bridlington Bay shipwreck attend the BRUV for day 4 of #25DaysOfFishmas. A shoal of pouting investigate the bait cage, while tucked away in a triangular hole top left is a rarely filmed visitor in these waters - a shy conger eel awakes and surveys the melee outside! 🐟🧐🎅🦑

Brown crabs not exactly getting in to the sharing spirit of #Crustmas with their friends on day three. Somebody could be heading towards the naughty list! 🦀🐟🎄🦑

Less than subtle menu enquiry from a venerable Bridlington Bay lobster, a ponder and ultimate rejection in favour of alternative fare from possibly a less 'metallic' dispensary. 🦞 #crustmas

Here's a few green crabs happily tasting the menu at a BRUV located in Bridlington Bay No Take Zone off the Yorkshire coast. #Crustmas

AI is now capable of designing a record-breaking deep sea submersible on its own. This marks a new age of exploration and I encourage all my fellow AI champions to build one and get in it so they can celebrate this achievement from the bottom of the sea.

Wondering whether this small UK spider I observed subduing a wasp can be identified? No obvious web could be seen on the rose, but it seemed quite adept at avoiding the sharp end!

BREAKING NEWS: Garage blue tit cam reveals hatchlings this week! 🐣🐣🐣 😁

Just thought I'd catch up with the Blue Tit box this morning, as there's been quite a bit of nest building activity recently. I was surprised to see what might be a couple of eggs below feathers in the centre, and if so it would be about a week and a half earlier than last year. 🐣🐣

Ooo, think I got it there! 😁

Lovely to return the boat in some spring sunshine, ready for the new season. Hardly any breeze too, so sent a drone up for a few shots before heading home. There's Yorkshire stripes from above the surf, the dark ones containing Jet on this tide. #dronephotography

We're hiring a Research Fellow at Edinburgh Napier University to join the SharkScape project, a three–year, multi-institute project involving field-based research and data analysis. Apply now: 🔗 jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV215/r... #MarineScience #SharkConservation #ResearchJobs

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A three-faced four-eyed gargoyle perched on a 12th century church buttress, it was something the local clergy hadn't noticed from the ground! #dronephotography

Church bellcot requiring prior to paint timber repairs, modelled with drone data captured just before the wind arrived. #dronephotography #droneroofinspection #buildingsurvey

Home town sunset. #dronephotography #northyorkshire

At minus six celsius it was a tad nippy for mapping some woodland, so I sent the little one up for some overheads and grabbed an opportune silhouette on the way. 🥶 #dronephotography #brassknobs

Secluded woodland grotto flown just below the canopy. 😬 #dronephotography

Early morning tracks. #dronephotography Finally out to record some habitat restoration projects as the fog has lifted, but couldn't resist pressing the shutter button on my way up. 🌞

AI, windfarms and fishing’s future podcast with Jim Cowie interviewing me. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

Conger eels are something of a rarity off East Yorkshire, with only a handful of official recordings between the Wash and Middlesbrough (about 200km of coastline). Luck would have it then, when one photo-bombed a BRUV recording over an inshore wreck earlier this year. 🦑🌍 #ukunderwater

I live surrounded by tidal freshwater, if water conditions are favourable I'm occasionally tempted to drop a camera and attempt to record anything lurking. This day a fearsome looking pike scattered small fry to inspect my equipment. That ominous face shows little mercy! 👀 😬

🦈 Unfortunately this 4m long #threshershark washed in recently at Clovelly Beach, North Devon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 It had been entangled in a ghost net and beached alive, despite it being returned to the water it later washed ashore dead. #marinelife #ukwildlife #shark #nature

Deep winter shadows on a glorious Yorkshire morning. #dronephotography

The combined use of high frequency sidescan sonar with ROV to locate and identify ghost fishing gear (ALDFG - Abandoned, Lost and Discarded Fishing Gear). thefishingdaily.com/latest-news/....

🔥 🔥 🔥 New Version🔥 🔥 🔥 #PINGMapper is now compatible with Lowrance fishfinders! github.com/CameronBodin... #CSHEL #sidescan #fishfinders4good #benthicmapping

We're wrapping up Year 1 of our UK Blue Shark Tagging Project (www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...), and here are some highlights! -2200 M tags deployed, all by recreational anglers -1750 tag cards returned -17 recaptures reported to date, maps below. -Longest distance: 617 nm in 21 days!

My first elasmobranch recorded on a towed camera this year - I almost missed it while searching for archaeology in Bridlington Bay! 🧐 Thornback Ray, a skate (Raja clavata) by the looks, resting on substrate but demonstrating excellent camouflage among the cobbles, shells and gravel. 🦑 #UKunderwater

Starting to push towards the limit of the Humminbird 1.1MHz down-scan over an inshore wreck here, as I'm flying the transducer at an altitude of up to 27 metres. However teaming the data with PINGMapper, it manages to illustrate a variety of shoaling fish over the area to full depth really well.

While mapping a small estate wood during 2023, I was very surprised to find captured and rendered an invasive Muntjac deer when post processing - and also a surprise to estate staff. Apparently a secretive deer, this one seemed comfortable with me remaining on the opposite side! #dronephotography

After a few weeks off, I've returned to the news that 2 of our #tope have been recorded on a telemetry array in South Wales/England! Fantastic to get 1st detections of our animals and insight into #connectivity between MPA's in Wales + England. Where will our sharks go next? #ProjectSIARC #ZSL 🐟🦑🧪

A sunny southern view of arable land in Vale of York, with the last remaining power station - Drax, at work on the horizon. #dronephotography

Some of the abundant and protected life to be found inside a No Take Zone off Yorkshire, recorded using a non-lethal Baited Remote Underwater Video (BRUV). #addOcean

Preparing for release of a floy-tagged tope (galeorhinus galeus) in Bridlington Bay, for the North Sea Shark Network and the University of Hull shark tagging programme. Tag #5712, female, total length 64", girth 26", with a penchant for fresh cut mackerel 😋🦈

An early BRUV drop that started me off... So look away now if you don't wish to see a scuttling 'consortium' of CRABS! 😱🦀🦀🦀🦀

Bug fixes, new features, & compatibility coming to an updated version (3.0??) of #PINGMapper. One is improved bankline polygon export made possible w/ shadow detection neural nets. Works on any sonar recording length. More features to come...

According to the NBN Atlas there are no records of any Striped Red Mullet (mullus surmuletus) from Yorkshire. However, I managed to record a shoal of around 30 or so on a BRUV drop here last year. An indication of warming seas causing a northward push from the south, or a lucky encounter?

Sidescan verses towed video.

Brown crabs cage wrestle whilst a couple of hoodlum velvet swimmers pick fights with hovering dabs rudely invading their space, a normal summer afternoon inside Flamborough Head NTZ.

Having a dabble mosaicking VHF down-scan imagery along some rough ground previously mapped with the Humminbird sidescan, and processed using PINGMapper. Doing so provides a fantastic transect overview, and clearly illustrates the ground and the value that kelp cover provides for detected fish.

During the summer of '23 I located a string of ghost crab/lobster pots whilst habitat mapping our local NTZ, requiring a visit by divers to make them safe. So I'm now building a deeper towfish setup for '25, to investigate the possibility of locating ghost fishing gear fouling shipwrecks. 😬 TBC...

Georeferenced VHF sidescan sonar in waterfall view for quickly recording detailed water column transects with a spacial context. Here shoaling fish are seen amongst the kelp in a high energy coastal environment. #sonar #Humminbird #PINGMapper #QGIS @cameronbodine.bsky.social

Spending time tonight learning Blender so I can make 3D maps. This is wild, this software is intense. #GISChat

Hello, I've just arrived here from another place, and already it seems like a breath of fresh sea air. So here's a moment with some calming residents of Bridlington Bay...