My Shot

David Fleetham · Issue 148, Jan/Feb 2026 · pp. 67

Products mentioned: Canon 20D, Canon 100mm macro lens, Ikelite housing, Ikelite 125 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.) It is a treat to see a triton trumpet shell, Charonia tritonis, on the reef. They have become uncommon to rare in some locations. For thousands of years the Polynesians valued the Triton trumpet shell both for its beauty and its practical uses. They often hollowed out the tip of the shell to create a blowing horn, used for signaling between canoes or across villages, its deep, resonant tone carrying long distances over land and sea. In some island cultures, the triton shell served ceremonial and spiritual purposes, believed to summon protective ocean spirits…