Our Ocean (portfolio)

Portfolio #01

Photography

Thomas Peschak

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Photo by Jim Abernethy for Danah Divers

Thomas Peschak National Geographic Magazine Photographer

The biomass of predatory reef fish is incredibly high at Aldabra Atoll (Seychelles) and Bohar snappers are amongst the most abundant. Large schools aggregate at the mouth of the channels that funnel water in and out of the lagoon and these readily eclipse coral pinnacles.
Photo by Thomas Peschak

A Cape Gannet approaches low to land on Malgas Island (South Africa), one of only six nesting locations in the world for this threatened species. During the breeding season this rocky outpost off the South African west coast is carpeted by tens
of thousands of gannets.
Photo by Thomas Peschak

Today stilt fishing is only practiced by a small number of families along the south-west coast of Sri Lanka and many practitioners died during the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. The exact origins of this unique technique are unknown, but it is believed to have begun only after the Second World War as a way for fishermen to access more productive fishing grounds at high tide.
Photo by Thomas Peschak

In Oman free divers harvest cuttlefish with long hooks. A depth refuge and fast reproductive cycle make this fishery amongst the more sustainable in the region. I came across these fishermen while free diving around some offshore islands and they dragged me behind their boat across their fishing grounds until I was able to photograph the moment they caught a cuttlefish on one of their hooks.
Photo by Thomas Peschak

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