Send For most scuba divers, few places underwater match the visual thrill of a kaleidoscopic coral reef teeming with colourful fish. For Jeff Milisen, a marine biologist and photographer in Kona, Hawaii, there is no better place to dive than an open stretch of deep ocean.
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At night. âThereâs a whole lot of nothing,â he said. âThereâs no bottom, no walls, just this space that goes to infinity. And one thing you realise is there are a lot of sea monsters there, but theyâre tiny.â
Of course, there are big monsters, too, like sharks. But the creatures Milisen is referring to are part of a daily movement of larval fish and invertebrates, which rise from the depths to the surface each evening as part of one of the largest migrations of organisms on the planet. The emerging hobby of taking pictures of them is known as blackwater photography.