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“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite.”
- Jules Verne, 1869
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Being there...
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DGB1 - "Cave of Wonder"
Lethrinids schooling in the Diego Garcia lagoon.
DGB2 - "Into the Breach, a Swirl of Scales"
Cardinals in a crevice, Diego Garcia lagoon.
DGB3 - "Damsels in a Thicket"
Cerulian blue damselfish hover and hide in a thicket of Acropora coral, Diego Garcia lagoon.
DGB4 - "Le Fusiliers Picket"
Fusiliers off Cannon Point seaward coral reef, Diego Garcia.
DGB5 - "Clowns and Parrots, Hide and Seek"
Clownfish and parrotfish among shallow lagoon reef corals, Diego Garcia.
DGB6 - "One Point Seven Meters, a Napoleon Wrasse"
The vegetarian Napoleon wrasse on a seaward reef shelf, Cannon Point, Diego Garcia.
DGB7 - "Their World"
The seaward reef of Simpson Point, Diego Garcia.
DGB8 - "Butterflies and Sea Blossoms"
Butterflyfish and others on a lagoon reef, Diego Garcia.
DGB9 - "Convict Parade, Feeding en Masse at Coral Cafe"
Feeding convict tang in the Replenishment Zone, Diego Garcia lagoon.
DGB10 - "Jules"
A reef squid cruises in slanting tropical sun beams, Diego Garcia lagoon.
DGB11 - "Two Hundred and Eight Million Years"
A sea turtle feeds on sponge, seaward reef, Diego Garcia.
DGB12 - "Shelter"
A sea turtle rests out of the current off Simpson Point, Diego Garcia.
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
- Shakespear; The Tempest
DGB13 - "Private Moment"
A pajama striped 'Oriental' sweetlips gets cleaned by a wrasse, Diego Garcia.
DGB14 - "Overdressed"
'Oriental' sweetlips among grouper and surgeons, Diego Garcia.
DGB15 - "Curious"
A Lethrinid on a lagoon reef, Diego Garcia.
DGB16 - "Just Leave Me be"
A grouper hides under shelving reef formation, Diego Garcia lagoon.
DGB17 - "Over all I Survey"
A moray eel lords in a reef adjacent a barren 'bone yard' of bleached coral shards.
DGB18 - "... and the Deep Blue Sea"
Majestic grouper and colorful anthias at the edge of a seaward reef shelf, Cannon Point, Diego Garcia.
"Do not tell 'fish-stories' where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish."
- Mark Twain
DGB19 - "Robust"
Beasts of the coral forest, Simpson Point, Diego Garcia.
DGB20 - "Dappled Jack"
A trevally (jack) in the column, Diego Garcia lagoon.
