(March 2003 - Mozambique - Scuba diving)
Unlike life on the land, the faces in the depths of the ocean illuminate with life. Scuba diving...I hover...looking across a one foot space of water to my dive buddy. Serenity divides us in the illumination. Sun beckons from the surface, her rays reaching through the mass of liquid to touch my dive buddy's face in ways they never do on land.
Air escapes her respirator as she exhales, bubbles follow the contours of her face as they make their escape to the surface. Her skin...a shimmering tan, her eyes radiate an unexplainable blue...the bubbles of illumination surround as we swim the depths; only to encounter schools of fish discussing the next course. The coral flows over rocks, manta rays swim past in a "ballet-ic" movement reminiscent of a bird in slow motion flight.
Spotlights of sunshine.
The ocean world continues.
Amongst our illuminated bubbles.
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