Shy little bastard. Come out and play.
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under photography
Not very funny for a clownfish.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, clownfish, conservation, diving, environment, fish, island, ocean, photography, sea, wildlife
Creatures of the Andaman deep
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under photography
A full gallery of images from diving in the Andamans. All in one place. To accompany a story on India’s nascent diving industry, the unofficial headquarters of which is on Havelock Island, smack in the middle of the Bay of Bengal.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, conservation, diving, environment, havelock, journalism, ocean, photography, sea, wildlife
How do you like them clownfish?
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From Anemone Reef, Havelock Island
I can't get enough
Tags: andaman and nicobar, anemone, anemonefish, clownfish, diving, environment, havelock, india, ocean, photography, sea, shenanigans, wildlife
Underwater ninja loses his throwing (sea) star
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They move... very, very, very slowly.
Colors underwater fade quickly. Red is the first to go and the deeper a diver goes, the more muted and filtered the light spectrum becomes.
Which makes the vivid, giant Blue Sea Star all the more spectacular because it stands out so much.
(Forgive the weird headline. I’m experimenting in what gets the most attention on Facebook.)
Tags: andaman and nicobar, blue sea star, diving, environment, havelock, india, ocean, photography, sea, wildlife
Those are actually pretty worms…
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under photography
Christmas Tree worms living in stony coral
Tags: andaman and nicobar, anemone reef, christmas tree worm, coral, diving, environment, havelock, india, ocean, photography, reef, sea, wildlife
Year of the clownfish
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under photography
My favorite underwater subject
I’m going to be out of range of the Internet for a few days. As such, this week will be dedicated to photos from a story on India’s nascent dive industry. Above, is a standard, Western Clown anemonefish.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, anemone, beach, clownfish, diving, environment, fish, havelock, india, journalism, ocean, photography, port blair, sea, underwater, western clown, wildlife
The sea is a lovely, cruel mistress
Posted by Adam Jadhav | Filed under photography
A fetish to the sea goddess
On December 26, 2004, a tsunami wiped out a swath of fishermen’s homes on the beach near Hut Bay on Little Andaman island.
Five years later, I went there to see what, if anything, was left.
The fishermen and their familes have moved inland, afraid of the sea. The beach is scattered with garbage and little else.
A small temple was rebuilt near the beach, and fishermen worship there and at fetishes along the sandy spit for good luck as they head for their daily catch. Hanging from the fetish: bangles, earrings, hair and a comb.
The sea goddess is still worshipped because they know no other way. She is wonderful and terrible all at once, one fishermen said.
Tags: andaman and nicobar, beach, cricket, fishing, god, hut bay, india, island, journalism, little andaman, ocean, photography, religion, sea, tsunami
