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04/07/2009: "INVERTED WORLD FOR A FISH"
Back in the sixties this picture would have been rejected for publication. The attitude toward everything underwater was different then. There were also only a handful of trained marine biologists in the world and most did not scuba dive. Can you imagine that?
The point with the picture here is that I 'stood on my head underwater' to get the proper perspective. Even with that minor stunt it wouldn't help in favor of publication. Before you consider that it would have been easier to turn the picture around rather than take it upside down - wrong. The flash arm prevented this being possible.
Yet here was an interesting little encounter in 20 meters of depth near Sydney, offshore from the Royal National Park.
For the little fish, his world was completely reversed. It lived upside down on the ceiling of a small cave. The effects of gravity being reversed in his world.
In later years someone probably gained a PhD degree studying this phenomenon. When I took the picture, popular magazines, those who bought marine pictures would lose sales figures with such a theme.
Today the story should be of interest for several genres of modern underwater explorers.
