My Shot

David Fleetham & George Day · Issue 149, Mar/Apr 2026 · pp. 74–75

Products mentioned: Canon EOS R5, Ikelite dry-lock housing, Canon RF 100mm macro lens, Ikelite 230 strobes, Nauticam SMC-3, Nauticam MFO-3, Nauticam NA D800 housing, Nikkor 105mm f2.8G, Inon Z-330 strobes, iPhone 15, DiveVolk housing

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.) The green bubble algae, Valonia ventricosa—also called sailor’s eyeball or sea pearl—is a common sight on South Pacific reefs. The smooth green spheres sit on reef flats and rubble zones like lost marbles, out of place among coral and broken stone. They look strange. Almost too perfect. Most divers touch one the first time they see it, just to be sure it’s alive and not something dropped there by mistake. What seems like a curiosity turns out to be something more. Valonia ventricosa is one of the largest single-celled organisms known. Each bubble is one cell…