Kona, on the Island of Hawai‘i, is the birthplace and world headquarters for blackwater diving and is where I observed all the animals in this book. As strange as these animals seem to us, they help form the dominant community covering over seventy percent of the earth’s surface. Schools of exotic squids and marvelous larval fishes are normal in the middle of the ocean. Some spend their whole lives drifting near the surface, while others eventually settle on the bottom or venture freely between deep and shallow water. Some of these creatures are delicate enough to be destroyed by bubbles while others are muscular, fast, and sometimes even dangerous. The animals that we encounter range in size from baby squids smaller than a pinky nail to forty-foot long jellyfish called siphonophores. The people who witness this nighttime migration are blackwater divers- brave divers who throw themselves off a boat in the dark of night in open ocean waters that are, for all practical purposes, bottomless. Honolulu-The world’s greatest migration of animal life occurs every evening when uncountable numbers of mostly small marine organisms rise up from the dark, chilly depths of the open ocean to its surface waters. PRESS RELEASE:Ī Field Guide to Blackwater Diving in Hawai‘i will satisfy the curious ocean aficionado with a photographic overview of life in the open ocean at night with field guide information on each luminescent creature.Īvailable for pre-order at at special price $15.99 (retail $19.95) Hawaii has some of the world's best blackwater diving, and Jeff Milisen has been exploring and documenting this special wilderness for years. It is a unique and exciting experience, and the critters that you see are alien and interesting. Blackwater night diving is an increasingly popular underwater sport where divers explore the night time depths of pelagic seas, looking for little critters.
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