Sometimes...one should just look up

The view from the bottom up. The cracks bring the scenery to life.

As a seafloor ecologist, I spend most of my time underwater looking down. I frequently miss the sharks (when in the tropics), rays, large fish, and definitly seals that circle me as my face is firmly planted in the mud. Its my happy place and one that is striking.

The seafloor, like the surface can be covered in ice - somehow anemones like these can continue to live in this frozen region.

While we see ice on the seafloor, the ice above is really what sets this place apart in many ways. And it is difficult to capture on photo - that is one of the reasons I feel so privileged to have Lily here to help translate that into a way that others can appreciate.

The cracks in the ice are a window back to the cold above but the blues are indescribable without experiencing them. The main point of this dive was to get Lily more time to vision how to translate this environment to those who may never get the chance (or the maybe the oddity, to want to) dive here.

Lily had the best tour guide and colleague on this dive - Rob Robbins, who is here doing what we often need to remember to do... look up.

All dives must come to and end, but on our day "off" it was nice to get in the water and look around - it is all part of the project which aims to use every means possible to inform and excite as many people as possible about the importance and amazement of Antarctica's marine realm.