Open Ocean Story
Photographs from Norbert Wu Productions
Plate 1
OPN0023. blue water diving to research open ocean life; Central N Pacific
Plate 2
OPN0032. driftwood in open ocean; attracts great numbers of fish in deep water; Hawaii
Plate 3
OPN0042. ocean sunfish or Mola mola; a pelagic fish eats jellyfish; California ©Mark Conlin / Norbert Wu Productions, www.norbertwu.com
Plate 4
OPN0043. kelp raft or paddy; giant clumps float to open ocean and attract fish; other life; California ©Mark Conlin / Norbert Wu Productions, www.norbertwu.com
Plate 5
OPN0049. endangered juvenile loggerhead turtle drifts in sargassum weed; floats with open ocean currents for two years ©Mark Conlin / Norbert Wu Productions, www.norbertwu.com
Plate 6
OPN0053. ocean sunfish; Mola mola; under floating kelp patty; ©Bob Cranston / Norbert Wu Productions, www.norbertwu.com
Plate 7
OPN0054. mahi mahi or dorado Coryphaena hippurus, showing different colors, Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico, Pacific coast ©Mark Conlin / Norbert Wu Productions, www.norbertwu.com
Plate 8
OPN0055. yellowfin tuna Thunnus albacares in a tuna net, Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico, Pacific coast ©Mark Conlin / Norbert Wu Productions, www.norbertwu.com
Plate 9
OPN56. striped marlin Tetrapterus audax, Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico, Pacific coast ©Steve Drogin / Norbert Wu Productions, www.norbertwu.com
Plate 10
OPN57. striped marlin Tetrapterus audax, Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico, Pacific coast ©Steve Drogin / Norbert Wu Productions, www.norbertwu.com
Plate 11
OPN58. yellowfin tuna Thunnus albacares in a tuna net, Magdalena Bay, Baja Mexico, Pacific coast ©Steve Drogin / Norbert Wu Productions, www.norbertwu.com