Toxic beauty…
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Lionfish
Lionfish at Minerva’s Ledge.
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What oceans look like when we don’t take all the fish…
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Abundance for the time being...
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Tucked away, waiting for dark
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Shy
What I presume is another type of feather star, hiding away until dark when it will unfold and feed.
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Back to the ocean
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Like a clenched fist
This is some sort of feather star, brought to us from Jackson’s Bar off near Havelock Island in the Andamans. I’ve been obsessing about diving lately as my next trip will be focused entirely on breathing compressed air and marine conservation research in a central American country this March.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, divemaster training, feather star, india, jackon's bar, ocean, photography, scuba diving, wildlife
Dark in deep places
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A lot of light already gets filter out when you’re 30 meters below the ocean’s surface. Overhangs, gorges and swim-throughs make things all the more eery when sunlight seems so far away.
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A man yesterday asked me why I care about the ocean…
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Lionfish...
And I actually struggled briefly. I can list all the ecosystem services the ocean provides: carbon sink, climate regulation, regional weather control, vital food chains. I can talk about all the direct human needs that are satisfied by the ocean: the billions that live off fish for protein, the hundreds of millions whose jobs depend on the seas.
Those are all reasons why I care. But my passion is really driven by the wildness of the blue below, and how exhilarating and yet also peaceful it is to visit that world.
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I’m a lionfish, hear me roar
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Lionfish eyeing me suspiciously. But with his protection of poison spines, he’s not going anywhere.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, divemaster training, fish, india, lionfish, ocean, photography, scuba diving, the wall, wildlife
