My Shot

David Fleetham · Issue 146, Sep/Oct 2025 · pp. 70

Products mentioned: Canon EOS R5, Ikelite dry-lock housing, Canon 100mm macro lens, Ikelite 230 strobes

My Shot by David Fleetham Do you have a favourite shot or an image/s which made a dive special? E mail yours with some text to peter@uwpmag.com and yours could be the next My Shot/s (It’s very easy. Images can be any size bigger than 20cm (horizontal or vertical) @ 150dpi saved as jpeg format and about 500 - 750 words would be fine.) Suspended in the inky depths of the Pacific Ocean, with 3,000 feet of water between us and the seafloor, we hovered in the blackness off the coast of Guam. The current held us in a slow drift as our lights revealed a rare spectacle — dozens of Manokia stiasnyi, a jellyfish so elusive it’s considered a prize sighting among blackwater divers. Their translucent bells pulsed gently, trailing delicate tentacles that glowed faintly in the beam of our strobes. It was the kind of night we live for — a dance of rare creatures rising from the deep. Ctenophores, siphon…