Editorial

Staff · Issue 102, May/Jun 2018 · pp. 4

Editorial Peter Rowlands peter@uwpmag.com Blacro Blacro? What’s Blacro? Well it’s a shortened version of Blackwater and Macro where divers descend at night from a boat, below which is lowered a very powerful light. This light attracts small creatures up from the depths and gives underwater photographers the opportunity to photograph some amazing, hitherto unphotographed, animals. My guess is that this all started in Hawaii but has since spread literally all over the world because, when the ambient light disappears, the background behind these small creatures becomes black. Hence Blacro. The good thing is that Blacro diving can be done anywhere in the world, even in comparatively limited visibility, regardless of whether it’s blue or green water during the day. Photographically it brings its own challenges Fake news A diving buddy of mine was enthusing about a salvage documentary he had w…