Merida is in the northwest part of the Yucatan peninsula, about three hours west of Cancun. About 65 million years ago, a huge asteroid crashed in…
Local dive shops boast that one of their dive sites has some of the clearest water in the world. The place is called Silfra (pronounced Sil-vruh…
Over the past few seasons of Blue World production, we have done several segments in cenotes and cave-like environments in Mexico and the Bahamas.…
We are working on an exciting new project! It's Blue World's first theatrical release film. For now we would like to keep some of the…
Back in the 1980s when I started diving, and therefore began subscribing to dive magazines, it was hard to miss the fact that Cocos Island was the…
Alas, our program involves an incredible amount of travel and expense. Furthermore, I actually hate being away from my kids, so I don’t like…
For every season of Jonathan Bird’s Blue World, we do a couple “big expeditions” which are typically extended-length shoots where…
We just returned from a challenging but productive shoot in the Florida Keys where we shot two new segments for season 4. The first segment is…
Kerry and I have just returned from an exciting shoot in Indonesia where we filmed a segment about an incredibly remote island called Manuk Island…
This week the Blue World team shot a fascinating segment that we had been working towards for a long time. Several years ago we heard about the…
Back in 2010, the Blue World team headed down to Small Hope Bay Lodge on Andros, Bahamas to do a segment on Blue Holes. We dove The Guardian, one…
In late October, the Blue World team consisting of Julia Cichowski, Todd Kelly and Jonathan headed out to Guadalupe Island in Mexico on a mission…
Almost everyone has heard of Blackbeard the Pirate, but many people do not realize that he was a real pirate with a real ship! And the remains of…
Our mission? To follow the daily activities of a Beluga whale trainer and learn what is involved in the maintenance of such a large exhibit. They…
Editor Tim, Todd and I have just returned from a 3 day shoot in upstate New York, where we were filming Lake Sturgeon in the St. Lawrence river. We…
Hi Everyone, Well, this weekend was the 35th annual New England Emmy Awards, where we were nominated for SEVEN awards! It was a fun and exciting…
The Aquarius Reef Base is the world’s only underwater research lab where the scientists live in saturation for extended periods of time. Like…
Many years ago, I filmed Gray seals underwater near Bar Harbor, Maine. These animals, especially the juveniles, are often quite curious of divers,…
For the first time ever, this year we had a booth at the Beneath The Sea diving trade show in Secaucus, NJ. I go to the show every year to give a…
A couple years ago I met Jorge Loria, owner of Phantom Divers in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. He told me about an amazing dive he had been doing with…