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Jellies surround Doubilet’s dive partner.


Underwater Surprises Even as a visitor, a diver needs to feel at home underwater, Doubilet says. Tat sounds easy, but the sea is “a cold, distant, and different place.” Everything from how you move to how you breathe is different. Sometimes what a diver sees or experiences


can be surprising. Once during a dive in a saltwater lake, Doubilet and a partner met up with some jellies. Trough his camera lens, Doubilet watched the jellies suddenly and silently surround his partner. Teir lime green bodies pulsed around his


partner until only his head and hand could be seen. Most jellies can sting, which would make this encounter deadly. Yet these jellies lived far from the predators they would find in the sea. Tese jellies had lost their ability to sting. Swimming among them was not deadly, but magical instead.


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Patience, Patience, Patience Being good at his job takes patience. Doubilet spends a lot of time planning and preparing before he even gets in the water. He spends a lot of time underwater, waiting and watching. Doubilet worked for years to take a photo


of a male tomato clownfish caring for his eggs. Once he found the fish, he could not take his eyes or his lens off of it. He was in awe of how the fish cared for the eggs. “He’s guarding. He’s cleaning. He’s tending,” he says. Te fish was looking for anything growing


on the eggs, like parasites. He was also making sure no other sea creature harmed the eggs.


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