Asian Diver (English)

WHO’S THE STRANGEST OF THEM ALL…?

- Your editor,

Strangely enough, other than the deepest part of the ocean, those seemingly uninterest­ing seascapes – the muddy, silty, and rubble-strewn, the mangroves and seagrass beds – are actually home to some of the most interestin­g, cryptic, and weird critters around. Though the bizarre denizens of the deep are also accessible if you’ve got the guts, and fancy drifting in the open ocean at night, waiting to bump into the crazy life forms making their nightly pilgrimage to the shallows. So yeah, with its tongue-eating parasites, mysterious underwater formations, gender fluidity, and faces that only a mother could love, the sea is most certainly a repository of the strange. Yet, considerin­g that this planet is more ocean than earth, it could well be argued that us “air-breathers” are actually the strangest of them all!

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