Style spectrum: Theo Vickers

Style spectrum

Theo Vickers

Theo Vickers is a final year marine biology undergraduate at the University of Portsmouth. Growing up, summers were spent snorkelling, swimming and rockpooling all along the Island’s coastline.

“As a child I was obsessed with nature” Theo says. “I would spend hours poring over books and pictures of sharks, whales, dinosaurs and fossils. Today, my main scientific interest is the ecology and zoology of marine vertebrates and megafauna like fish, sharks, seabirds and particularly marine mammals, but I’m fascinated by all marine life.”

From spectacular shallows to subtidal seagrass beds, Theo’s stunning photography raises the rich technicolour of our Island’s underwater kingdom to the surface for all to see. “On the Isle of Wight we are surrounded by a diverse marine world that is teeming with activity, colour and life,” Theo says. “I hope that by capturing underwater films and images from our seas I can help showcase and tell the stories of some of the amazing wildlife, habitats and species beneath our waters that many people may never have encountered.”

Left: Face off with a furious Velvet Swimming Crab (Necora puber) at Bembridge Marine Conservation Zone

Right: A compass jellyfish (Chrysaora hysoscella) pulses through the surface waters of the Bembridge Marine Conservation Zone

A solar-powered sea slug (Elysia viridis) making its way along a frond of Fucus wrack at Reeth Bay, Niton Fucus serratus – also known as serrated wrack – growing rapidly in the spring sunlight at Steel Bay

A dahlia anemone opens to feed in a sunlit rockpool at Hanover Point, Compton Bay