nubbsgalore:

joshua lambus dives three to five miles out from hawaii’s big island at night, dropping about sixty feet below the surface, sans tether, with another ten thousand vertigo inducing feet below him, in order photograph these light sensitive pelagic animals.

in what is the largest migration of any group of animals on the planet, thousands of these creatures, who live in total darkness during the day, make their way to the surface at night, where they can absorb more oxygen or feed in the more nutrient dense waters.

though many of these species have never been seen before or identified, lambus considers the fourth photo to be his favourite, which, after three years of inquiry, he learned shows an octopus that has torn off the poisonous tentacles of a portugese man of war (featured here) so to ward off its own would be predators.

rivendellrose