Gallery III ~ Pearl Harbor below the waves

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"... A date that will live in infamy..."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Being there...
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PHB1 - "Unidentified Remains"
Wreckage of an unknown vessel, channel to West Loch, Pearl Harbor, 2005.



PHB2 "Ghosts in the Murk"
Ethereal wreckage rising, materializes out of the gloom, Pearl Harbor, 2005



PHB3 "Destiny of the Unknown"
Tackle descends from unknown wreckage, Pearl Harbor, 2005.



PHB4 "Procession: Phantoms"
Frozen figures appear in the haze, unknown wreckage, Pearl Harbor, 2005.

In Memoriam, A.H.H.
I hold it true, whate'er befall; 
I feel it when I sorrow most; 
'Tis better to have loved and lost 
Than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson


PHB5 - "This Place"
Fish life on unknown wreckage, Pearl Harbor, 2005.



PHB6 - "There is only the Now"
Moorish idol, night major, and other fish at home on unknown wreckage, Pearl Harbor, 2005



PHB7 "Tour"
A Moorish idol on an unknown wreck, Pearl Harbor, 2005.



PHB8 - "Community"
A shallow community of fishes along a sunken bulkhead, Pearl Harbor, 2005.



PHB9 "With Purpose"
Goatfish hover and feed on sediment covered surfaces amid a ghostly community, Pearl Harbor, 2005.



PHB10 - "Daisy Blossom"
A feather duster worm stakes its place with sponges and algae, unknown wreckage, Pearl Harbor, 2005.



PHB11 - "Blossoms of the Upper Crust"
Feather duster worms filter the column over encrusted surfaces, Pearl Harbor, 2005



PHB12 - "Bloom"
Feather duster worm on silt littered bottom, Pearl Harbor, 2005.



PHB13 - "Castoff"
Meadow of feather dusters filter the water column on aged pile of debris near the wreckage of the USS Arizona, Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, 2005.



PHB14 "On This Tiny Spot: Everywhere is Here"
Columns of a sponge and tube worm village, Pearl Harbor, 2005.



PHB15 - "Whoville"
Community of sponges, tube worms, and tunicates on silt covered surface, Pearl Harbor, 2005.



PHB16 - "Bottom life"
Life in the sediment and silt bottom of Pearl Harbor, 2005.



PHB17 "Animalia Prime"
Intricate sponge community on silted bottom, Pearl Harbor, 2005.


'E was a bold man that first ever eat an oyster.

- Jonathan Swift

PHB18 - "Among the Stars"
Cassiopeia, the upside-down jellyfish on silty algal covered bottom, Pearl Harbor, 2005.



PHB19 - "Pardon: Inconspicuous"
A colorful nudibranch stands out on a patch of invasive alien algae (Gracilaria salicorna), Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, 2005. 

PHB20 - "Jabberwock: He Inquired, Held His Post"
A gold flecked moray eel in its lair, under an aged outflow pipe, fish pond, West Loch channel, Pearl Harbor, 2005.




They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
- Sitting Bull, Chief of the Sioux