It was the boundary of Two Worlds.įast forward to a five-decade-long career as an underwater photographer and storyteller for National Geographic magazine. And I put my head just below and here's a silent, welcoming world full of shafts and green light and fish hiding beneath the boulders of the jetty, waving seaweeds, groups of passing fish. I'd see people on the beach, I'd see clouds passing by. I would swim with my head above the water and see the lifeguard blowing his whistle at me, screaming. It began with a vision that I had when I was around 9 years old, swimming around the jetty of the Ocean Beach Club in New Jersey. These half-and-half images are my favorite images to make. Underwater photographers really have been trying to connect people with the ocean. It divides the air world, the known world where we all live, and the water world, which, up till the last 75 years or so, has been something of a mystery.

What I love about this is that the surface of the sea is the most important border on our planet.

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