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#'Italian #diver #EnzoMaiorca, while #diving in the #sea of #Syracuse, felt something hit him in the back. He turned around and saw a #dolphin.
He understood that he was not playing, but #expressing something.
The dolphin dived down and Enzo followed him.
At a depth of 12 meters, caught in a #net, was #another dolphin.
After managing to free him and his wife, when the two #dolphins surfaced, they emitted an almost human cry (this is how Maiorca described it). Dolphins can be held #underwater for up to 10 minutes and then drown. The captive dolphin was a #female about to give #birth.
The male surrounded her and stood in front of Enzo and touched his cheek (like a kiss), a gesture of gratitude. Enzo ended his speech with the words:
"Until man learns to respect and #communicate with the #animal #world, he will never be able to know his true role on this #earth."
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During his presentation, Stuart Kirk also said: ‘Who cares if Miami is six metres underwater in 100 years? #Amsterdam has been six metres underwater for ages, and that’s a really nice place. We will cope with it.’
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Researchers Photograph Rare Fish That Sees Through its Own Head
The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) recently spotted an exceedingly rare find: a barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma). This strange deep-sea dweller has a transparent head it sees through with its tubular eyes.
MBARI uses a pair of remotely operated vehicles (ROV), the Ventana and the Doc Rickets , to survey the ocean at various depths. In the more than 5,600 successful dive missions and more than 27,600 hours of video, the team has only ever seen this fish a scant nine times.
Aquarist Tommy Knowles and his team were aboard MBARI’s R/V Rachel Carson with our ROV Ventana to collect jellies and comb jellies for the Aquarium’s upcoming Into the Deep exhibition when they spotted this fascinating fish. The team stopped to marvel at Macropinna before it swam away.
The barreleye is a particularly unique species of fish. It lives in what is called the twilight zone of the ocean at depths of 2,000 to 2,600 feet. That deep, light comes at a premium and different species have developed unusual traits to adapt to the environment. Of those, MBARI says that the barreleye is one of the most bizarre.
The barreleye (Macropinna microstoma) has extremely light-sensitive eyes that can rotate within a transparent, fluid-filled shield on its head. The fish's tubular eyes are capped by bright green lenses. The eyes point upward (as shown here) when the fish is looking for food overhead. They point forward when the fish is feeding. The two spots above the fish's mouth are olfactory organs called nares, which are analogous to human nostrils.
"Two small indentations where eyes might normally appear on a fish are actually the barreleye’s olfactory organs, and its eyes are two glowing green orbs behind its face that gaze up towards the top of its head," MBARI explains.
The barreleye doesn't get particularly large and has an estimated maximum size of just six inches long. It is known to exist between the Bering Sea to Japan as well as Baja California.
The research team had previously shown that the fish can rotate its eyes towards the front to see its food when eating. Before that, scientists believed that the fish had its gaze permanently fixed upwards, which would be helpful to it as the fish is believed to often hover below a siphonophore’s tentacles to steal food.
"Its eyes look upwards to spot its favorite prey -- usually small crustaceans trapped in the tentacles of siphonophores -- from the shadows they cast in the faint shimmer of sunlight from above."
MBARI is working with the Monterey Bay Aquarium to bring deep-sea creatures to its Into the Deep exhibit set to launch in the spring of 2022, though it's not clear if the barreleye will make an appearance. The organization has set up a detailed webpage on the rare fish for those interested in learning more about one of the ocean's most bizarre creatures.
Image credits: Photos copyright MBARI.
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Photographer Captures Beautiful Split Photos Above and Below the Sea
David Doubilet, known as a pioneering underwater photographer, has released a photo book that spans decades of his work and shows the symbiosis of the mysterious underwater world and the more familiar surface captured together in a single image.
Doubilet is widely acclaimed as one of the world's leading underwater photographers and has been a regular contributor to National Geographic for decades. Today, Doubilet has revealed his "Two Worlds: Above and Below the Sea" photography book which encompasses decades of documenting the ocean and the still largely unexplored underwater world.
Doubilet discovered his passion for outdoor exploration during a summer camp as a kid when he was given a mask and sent under a dock to pick up sticks and "meet the dreaded giant dock spider as punishment" because he did not want to hike. Since that moment, he has been mesmerized with the life underwater and at the age of twelve, his father used an anesthesiologist bag to create an underwater camera housing for Doubilet's Brownie Hawkeye camera, giving him a taste for what's to come later in his career.
David Doubilet on assignment among icebergs Scoresby Sund Fjord Greenland
He published his first story during his teen years and went to collaborate with National Geographic in 1971. Five decades and 75 stories later, Doubilet still sees every dive as a discovery.
"I still search for the elusive half and half image and I continue to nudge photographic boundaries to see where we can make technological advances," he says.
The idea for his Two Worlds projects arose early on; Doubilet has always been fascinated with the surface of the sea "as a door to a hidden world", he tells PetaPixel.
"Fast forward to assignments in the remote corners of the world where I began to slow down and look as I descended. I saw corals sloping upwards to the surface meeting rainforests tumbling to the edge. I began lingering at the boundary of surface and sea, recognizing it as our largest most important border on the planet."
This is where the experiments of capturing half and half images in a single frame began. For Doubilet it is a thrill, knowing that a person on the surface has no idea of the fascinating and rich life that can be seen just beneath the water.
The project includes images taken throughout Doubilet's underwater career and spans Papua New Guinea to Grand Cayman Island, from the icy waters of the Antarctic Ocean to the tropical Great Barrier Reef. He has captured rare sea creatures, corals, plant life, and the unique underwater landscape -- all of which help highlight important climate change and marine life conservation issues.
Although an exciting experience, it can be labor-intensive to create images like these. Doubilet uses a variety of Nikon cameras in SEACAM underwater housings which are equipped with a range of wide-angle Nikkor lenses, behind a 9.5-inch optical glass super dome. The dome corrects the 33-percent underwater magnification and spreads the boundary layer of the surface across the curvature of the dome.
When Doubilet shoots, he has to kneel or stand very carefully; sometimes he even floats with the housing and dome half in and half out of the water. He lights the bottom half of the frame with two or more Sea and Sea YS 250 strobes.
The most challenging aspect of this type of work is finding two compelling subjects in a single frame to illustrate the essence of the place that Doubilet is shooting in.
"Although I am driven to look for two world moments on every dive, the images themselves remain rare," he explains. "In five decades and 75 stories as a National Geographic photographer, I have only produced a few dozen of these images that I truly like."
"The largest border that impacts every single person on this planet is not etched in ink, it is the surface of the ocean. It is a portal into that other 71-percent of our planet. No matter where we live, coastal or inland, we depend on the oceans to produce oxygen and resources that we rely on."
As challenging as underwater photography is, Doubilet doesn't plan on stopping and hopes that his project connects people to the sea. The newly published book is an invitation for the audience to enter into this world: "to see, know, explore, connect with, and protect the oceans."
Doubilet's "Two Worlds: Above and Below the Sea" book is available for $60 and can be found on the Phaidon website, with more of Doubilet's photographic work available on the Undersea Images website.
Image credits: All images by David Doubilet and used with permission.
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