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Photojournalist Brian Skerry literally "lived on the seabed", when several months traveling on a fishing boat. He traveled all over the row - by snowmobiles to canoes and helicopters.

Skerry specializes in underwater photography and photo on the marine theme. His latest project - November edition «National Geographic» - brought him into the waters off the coast of Japan. As the water temperature varies here from the ice to the temperate and tropical, the variety of living organisms, which found Skerry, just amazing.

8 Photo © Brian Skerry via National Giographic

1. aptly named angelfish, is transparent creature is actually a snail whose foot has been modified in a couple of "flying wing". This is an important food source for whales and fish in the cold waters off the coast of Japan.





2. corals Suruga Bay two shrimp camouflaged among the polyps. The male (smaller) is a female with him.



3. 112 km south-west of Tokyo moray strolls through the branches of coral in the cool waters of the Suruga Bay. The bay has a depth of about 2 meters.



4. Hunting delicious plankton, these coral fish swim near the Japanese islands Bonin.



5. This sand tiger shark off the coast of the islands Banin soon give birth. During the nine-month gestation period, the largest of the two cubs eat the second - the act of cannibalism is unique to this species.



6. Along the coast of the peninsula Itsu bull looks out of rusty cans of soda.



7. Under the ice there is a struggle thorns - king crab crawling on the starfish. A few years later this crustacean to grow to the size of a tractor wheel.



8. Guban cleans scales butterfly fish, whose black-and-white pattern resembles the pattern of the Japanese kimono.



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