Meet the creatures of the night sea
Published 10 Sept 2021, 10:03 BST
A pelagic squid releases a cloud of ink before vanishing into the depths of Indonesian waters. The night sea can be mesmerizing, Doubilet suggests, but it can be disheartening to photograph for the reason that quite a few animals are very small and skittish: “As you go the concentrate, the creature spins this way or that, and you may possibly not get it.”
Photograph by David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes
A juvenile jack hides guiding a jellyfish—driving it like a motorboat. As the jellyfish presents safety from predators, the juvenile fish might feed on parasites that have latched onto its host. “You almost never operate into anything that doesn’t fascinate you,” Hayes suggests. “It actually is a new macroscopic lens into the sea.”
Photograph by David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes
Zooplankton—such as a jellyfish (remaining) and a larval lionfish surrounded by little, shrimplike amphipods (proper)—often swim from the deep toward the surface at night to feed. Diving in the open ocean following solar- down is “a grandstand seat to a parade of the most weird and exotic creatures in the entire world,” Doubilet claims.
Photograph by David Doubilet and Jennifer Hayes
Some sightings are rarer than other folks, these kinds of as this immortal jellyfish that Hayes photographed in Anilao, Philippines. When threatened, this glowing bell-formed invertebrate can revert to its earliest everyday living phase—essentially restarting its life. It’s a person of quite a few animals considered to be the holy grail for black-water