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<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > "God's Aquarium" Sipadan, a work of art that makes the father of scuba diving look sideways</h1>
"I saw a place like Sipadan 45 years ago, but now there is no more. We found an untouched work of art. ”（I have seen other places like Sipadan,45 years ago, but now no more. Now we have found an untouched piece of art.) said Jacques Cousteau, the father of scuba diving in the world. It's been 47 years since he collaborated with liquid air engineer Emile Garang to invent the scuba and single-person submersible. From the invention of scuba diving in 1942 to make the dream of human beings to explore the ocean more lasting and deeper into reality, to the modification as "Captain Cousteau" in 1950, the first marine expedition in the Red Sea aboard the "Calypso", to the first deep-sea documentary "Quiet World" made in 1956 to win the Cannes Palme d'Or, and then with exuberant energy and endless spirit of exploration, the mysterious blue planet was opened little by little in front of the eyes of the world. In an era when people still believed in the North Sea Monster, the Loch Ness Monster, and talked about shark discoloration, Captain Cousteau was the messenger of the sea. It wasn't until 1989 that when the ocean messenger set foot on a small island in Malaysia to make a documentary film, Borneo: the Ghosts of Sea Turtles, he exclaimed at the beginning of the article.
Sipadan, Malaysia, the world's top diving mecca, from left to right is the green star nine-spined perch (coral hind), regal angelfish (regal angelfish)
Sipadan, 36 km southeast of Semporna, with white sand beaches and lush palms and parasitic fig trees make up all of her. It doesn't take 10 minutes to walk the island. But wait, are you leaving? Captain Cousteau advises you, please take a deep breath and bury your head in the water. The unprecedentedly intense colors burn like flames, swaying in the blue light, and you wonder if you have just touched a mechanism, just like Alibaba first opened the treasure cave with the spell of "sesame door opening". It took you a long time to remember that your body still needed oxygen, and you suddenly raised your head and took a big breath, only to find that you had been living in a black and white world. Standing on the beach, the white sand is constantly being carried away by the waves that come and go, and watching and watching, this limited beach dissolves in the sea with the quicksand until it is infinite.
Sipadan, 36 km southeast of Semporna, with white sand beaches and lush palms and parasitic fig trees make up all of her
Jump into the water, dive 600 meters in a straight line, above the seabed, a huge volcanic cone towers straight over the sea, a wide variety of corals crawl all over the upper end of the cone, look closely, ah, these corals are alive! The tip of the volcanic cone that protrudes out of the sea is being stepped on by you, and you are standing in the heart of the Indo-Pacific Basin, a biogeographic region that stretches from the east coast of Africa in the west, to the Hawaiian Islands in the east, to the Red Sea and southern Japan in the north, to Madagascar and New Caledonia in the south, where the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia make up the most biologically diverse coral triangle in the tropical sea. More than 600 species of stony corals and more than 2,500 species of recorded reef fish are inhabiting the area, combining the colours you've just seen. Therefore, this island of projectiles is undoubtedly the message of the boundless ocean, the beginning of infinite life. Open the door with sesame seeds and welcome to God's Aquarium! Captain Cousteau said.
Sipadan is Malaysia's only ocean island with a huge volcanic cone rising 600 meters from the seabed
Sipadan, an unparalleled biodiversity of tropical seas, shows the six-banded trevally storm and the grey trident shark
The mirror, the BCD, the fins, the gas cylinder, thanks to the invention of Grandmaster Cousteau, only need one back, I am already in the "Aquarium of God". If necessary, I would like to recommend that all readers who love the sea learn to dive. Divers jokingly refer to the obsession with diving as "medium blue poison". When Jacques Cousteau first dived into the sea with his invention, he must have been "hit by blue poison" . I, and those who, like him, dive into the water with their scubas on their backs, taste a special kind of joy. It was a moment of crossing into a whole new world, and the passage connecting the two worlds was a series of bubbles that filled your vision, your hearing, and then as the bubbles dissipated, you felt a kind of unfettered ease and lightness. There are only two ways to achieve this happiness, cosmonaution and diving. This happiness belongs only to the blue space. This space temporarily isolates reality and is as free as a dream. Rich colors breathe to create splendor on their own, those stereotypical collocations no longer have meaning, colors are combined and scattered in any shape, changing rapidly, each design is full of playfulness, you can't find such designs anywhere else, because they transcend the level of reality. The ocean is the closest thing to a dream in an waking world.
The mirror, the BCD, the fins, the gas cylinder, thanks to the invention of Grandmaster Cousteau, only need one back, I am already in the "Aquarium of God".
The ocean is the closest thing to a dream in an waking world.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the magnificent six-banded trevally storm (video at the end of the article</h1>).
I straightened my body, lifted the BCD inflatable tube above my head, and slowly dived down with the exhaust. The tropical sun gradually receded, turning into a swaying point of light in the water, and the sea rose into a new sky. The ocean has all the weather in the sky, from sunny days to storms, in just a moment. A silver tornado swept in, swirling through the water by ocean currents, and even the eye of the storm could be seen. Without dodging, my dive partner and I swam to the eye of the storm with the submarine guide, surrounded by thousands of "jack fish" in an instant. "Jack Fish Storm", this is The greatest welcome ceremony in Sipadan. Jackfish is a common name for fish in the family Trevalliaceae, but there are many fish in the family Trevalliaceae, so jackfish is not a strict name. Look closely at the surrounding jackfish, the spindle-shaped flat body is wrapped in silver scales, the deep forked tail fin is dark, and the gill cap has a distinct black spot - the bigeye trevally, a widely distributed fish in the Indo-Pacific Ocean.
Sipadan is the most common and spectacular storm of the bigeye trevally
Six-banded trevally prefer to move in clusters to reduce the risk of predation. Fish of comparable size form schools of fish that swim synchronously at a distance from each other in a way that is called polar clusters. Huge six-banded trevally swim in polar clusters, and their auditory-lateral system allows them to sense changes in water pressure caused by their companions changing courses, accompanied by visual observation, thus maintaining a cruise in the same direction. The school of fish forms a large cylinder in the water, allowing more sensory organs to fit together, effectively expanding the range of detection of predators. If one of the fish finds a potential danger, it informs the group by behaving or releasing pheromones.
The way fish of comparable size form schools of fish and swim synchronously at a certain distance from each other is called polar clusters.
The auditory-lateral system on the six-banded trevally allows them to feel the change in water pressure caused by their companions changing courses, thus maintaining the same direction.
I slammed into the water and rushed into the school of fish, the surrounding fish spurting between their whiskers like bullets, then immediately regrouping and coming closer, swimming around us. I reached out and waved at the school of fish, but I couldn't touch any of them. The six-banded trevally dispersed in the same way again, gathered, and entered the field of vision in greater numbers, and the silver points of light reflected by the fish scales rose and fell, and I quickly lost my target, and the field of vision was lost in the flickering silver light. At this time, in the eyes of the six-banded trevally, I was a huge and dull predator. Pretending to be a predator can find that there is a negative correlation between group size and individual predation, which is the principle of risk dilution theory, and even if humans learn to understand, many times they still cannot achieve effective cooperation, but this principle is fully interpreted by the seamless cooperation of fish (and birds). Perhaps this is the wisdom and talent we have never had before, and only the heavens and the sea, the two most vast spaces in nature, can accommodate such great wisdom.
I slammed into the water and rushed into the school of fish, the surrounding fish spurting between their whiskers like bullets, then immediately regrouping and coming closer, swimming around us
Pretending to be a predator can reveal a negative correlation between group size and individual predation, and it seems that the six-banded trevally is well versed in the principles of risk dilution theory
The giant trevally in the six-banded trifolium school, the predators found nothing
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > the basis of remarkable coral, marine life</h1>
The six-banded trevally does not stay in the same place for too long, and the storm soon begins to migrate elsewhere. Sipadan opened the dive with the most solemn sense of ceremony. The Coral Triangle in the Tropical Waters of the Indian-Pacific Ocean, known as the "Amazon in the Sea," dives into it like exploring the most biodiverse jungle in the world, looking for throbbing life along every inch of coral reef, almost forgetting about life itself.
Painted frogfish on the sponge, the first dorsal spine is specialized into a tentacle and can change color
Clark's anemone between cherry blossoms
Mantis shrimp
At a depth of no more than 100 meters, a wide variety of hydra-shaped polyps secrete calcium carbonate, which wraps themselves in the armor of calcium carbonate and forms coral monomers. When a polyp dies, the newborn coral larvae attach to its skeleton to grow, multiply, and follow, thus forming a coral reef. This remarkable class of creatures is the foundation of coral reefs around the world – stony corals or reef-building corals. After reef-building corals build coral lime cities, sponges and soft corals attach to them and grow freely, these invertebrates are like dedicated decorators, decorating the coral city with its own magnificent colors and multilateral forms.
Staghorn coral, one of the most common stony corals
Cypress coral, a soft coral
Whiplash coral, a soft coral
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" > magical and dazzling marine life</h1>
From the reef to the slopes, green sea turtles are everywhere, and as long as we abide by the basic "sea morality" of divers, the green sea turtles generously allow us to swim with them. The Green Tortoise is an excellent guide, keeping our distance and following it, who will lead us on a dip in the reef. Its paddle-like limbs paddle unhurriedly paddling the water, searching among the mushroom-shaped hills formed by the chrysanthemum corals in the garden.
Green cockroach turtle on a garden chrysanthemum coral
Green cockleback turtle and foxface rabbitfish
As long as we abide by the basic "ocean morality" of divers, the Green Tortoise generously allows us to swim with them.
The pattern on the shell is shiny with coral color. Fellow diver Anna couldn't hold back her inner love and tried to touch it (a behavior to avoid when diving), and the turtle guide immediately swam away in disgust. Leave the tiny and rich life hidden among the stony corals for us to discover one by one. On the bubble coral, fluorescent dots, look closely, the translucent shrimpgoby (shrimpgoby) is inhabiting here, this is the smallest known fish in the world; in the crevices of the coral reef, from time to time, the bean-spotted naked-breasted eel (honeycomb morray eel) protrudes its head and reveals its fangs; it swims towards the red spiny soft coral, startling the lyretail anthias, which scatter like pink meteors in the sky.
In the crevices of the coral reef, from time to time, bean-spotted naked-breasted eels protrude their heads and reveal their fangs
Swimming towards the red spiny soft coral, the silk fins are scattered like pink meteors in the sky.
In the void at the bottom of the reef, the gray trident sharks huddled together and slowly paraded, and in the cave not far away, a green parrotfish was sealing itself with a bubble protective layer, praying that the gray trident shark that was staring at the tiger would not find itself. From gobies as small as 3 centimeters long to the world's largest fish, whale sharks, life lingers between this bustling coral city. About 30 percent of the fish in the ocean live around coral reefs, and only the biomass of the rainforests of the Amazon or Borneo can be compared to the coral reef ecosystem, and Sipadan is part of Borneo, where she stands barefoot in Borneo.
Whitetip reef shark
Parrotfish
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > gender-changing clownfish and the camouflage masters of the ocean</h1>
Scuba diving on your back, Grandmaster Cousteau seems to be with you at all times, always reminding you that in addition to paying attention to large sea creatures, those tiny marine elves are also unique. The eye-spotted double sawfish (clownfish) swims between the dancing tentacles of the anemone, in addition to mutually beneficial symbiosis with the anemone, the eye-spotted double sawfish, as an adjacent hermaphrodite, can change from male to female, that is, male mature first. This pattern of sex transition is the opposite of most fish that are pre-matured by adjacent hermaphrodite females. In a group of eye-spotted double sawfish, the largest female is dominant, and below this female is a male, and when the dominant female dies, the male turns to a female, and the other fish in the group are asexual. When the male becomes a female, the largest asexual fish under the male becomes a male. So when the big star of "Finding Nemo", the clownfish Nemo, was born, there would be no single dad Marin to protect him, because then the dad would most likely become a mom. But this does not affect Nemo's adventurous life, in the real ocean, every fish, no matter how big or small, is adventurous all their lives, and this adventure for the purpose of survival and reproduction is full of tricks, calculations and disguises, far more exciting than in the movie.
Clown anemonefish
The shrunken-headed lice parasitize and suck blood on the tongue of the eye-spotted double sawfish until the fish's tongue atrophises, and then connect its tail to the shrunken tongue to work instead of the fish tongue
And the pretenders in the fish, the superb transfiguration and blinding techniques, if you don't see it with your own eyes, it is really incredible. We swam to a reef slope where there was a creature between the crevasses in the reef rocks. It was dark brown all over, densely dotted with white dots, and its large round eyes were staring at our group of uninvited guests. I quickly dodged, the spotted naked-breasted eel with fangs in its mouth, biting and painful, and if it was determined to be threatened, it could attack. I alerted the submarine guide to keep an eye on the naked-breasted eel, but instead avoided it, but summoned everyone to quietly observe. If you look closely, where is the naked-breasted eel, but a fish with a pattern similar to that of the spotted naked-breasted eel, and that eye is actually a large spot on its dorsal fin. The way in which "harmless organisms" mimic "pests" that are poisonous, bad-tasting, or fierce is called shell mimicry. Pearl comet confuses predators by imitating the ferocious whitemouth morray eel, and after the female lays eggs in a reef crack, the male, as the guardian of the egg, will stick the back of the body out of the crack and pretend to be a spotted naked-breasted eel to scare off the intruder. Apparently, I, the intruder, had just been hit.
Pearl lily
Spotted naked-breasted eel
Shell mimicry is a self-defense tactic mastered by many marine creatures, such as the non-toxic saw-tailed mimic filefish mimic the poisonous saddle toby; the mimic octopus mimic octopus mimics the poisonous devil, sea snake and flounder, and the camouflage master can imitate more than three poisonous creatures according to the situation. The mysterious ocean is unfathomable, and equally unfathomable is the trick of nature, she gives creatures thousands of forms, while teaching them thousands of techniques, in order to survive, animals use all their strength, in the magic and the secret game, the fittest survive, endless.
Sawtail secondary leather pufferfish
Flat-backed pufferfish
Mimetic octopus, imitation master
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > giant sea monster encountered while diving in a herding</h1> stream
South Point is an adventure spot at Sipadan dive sites, where strong ocean currents bring an abundance of plankton and attract a large number of marine life. Divers love to see the "big guys" gather here. On the thinly sliced prickly coral thickets, the cleaning station for the split-lip fish is "booming", and the huge humphead parrotfish is enjoying the cleaning service of the split-lip fish, which eats mucus, scales and parasites from the "customer". Such a mutually beneficial relationship also makes it difficult for clean fish to become food, many big fish will even come to the cleaning station to seek cleaning services, they will pose a specific posture to inform the clean fish, and the mucus, scales rich in carbon, nitrogen and other nutrients on the big fish are the most generous rewards paid to clean fish.
The cleft-lipped fish (the small fish to the left of the hump-billed fish) is cleaning the hump-billed fish
Beautiful hump large parrotfish, big fish commonly found at the Sipadan South Point dive site
We followed the dive guide through the currents, and "release" is my favorite diving event, that is, people driving the current to another place. Concentrate, maintain neutral buoyancy, and be pushed forward by strong ocean currents. The dust particles and seawater are split into a vector high speed, and we fly at the high speed, allowing corals and sponges to pass by; from time to time, we break through the six-banded trevally storm and encounter manta rays that cover the sky and fly over our heads; harriers, green turtles, and gray three-tooth sharks hurry up, and then make way for the unstoppable uninvited guests in this ocean current. The ocean current is like a galloping wild horse, we can't control it, we can only let it carry us wildly.
Sipadan's famous sea wolf storm, schools of blackfin barracuda
Grey trident shark
A dark shadow flashed in the distance, and I could not judge the distance, but I was sure that there was a huge creature in front of me. It hovers flexibly through the chaos, shielding itself in the blue curtain without your eyes focusing. My partner's hands and I clung to each other, and in this ghostly deep sea, we couldn't see it, but we could sense its presence, and we broke into its territory, and it must have found us and got closer and closer to us. Before it could appear, the currents pushed us straight in front of it, and in an instant, the huge creature rushed straight out. I had never encountered such a strange creature, a 3-meter-long streamlined body attached to a huge hammer-shaped head, which skimmed over the top of my head, and I saw the barb-like teeth in its mouth under its swinging head. The scalloped hammerhead shark soon disappeared into the water. The dive guide gestures towards us in victory, which is Sipadan's most rare top predator. Underneath the hammer head of the hammerhead of the hammer, the hammer shark has a storage area with special sensory cells, which sense the presence of prey such as rays by swinging its head back and forth. So it has long sensed that we are uninvited guests, but it is not interested in us. Therefore, knowing how to dive does not mean that we have conquered the ocean. In the face of the ocean, this carving insect trick is nothing more than a shallow show, and every safe landing is only because the sea is kind to us.
The Luxe hammerhead shark is Sipadan's rarest top predator. Underneath the hammer head of the hammerhead of the hammer, the hammer shark has a storage area with special sensory cells, sensing prey such as rays
I returned to the white sand beach with infinite gratitude, the sand as delicate as frosting. I am grateful to Grandpa Cousteau for inventing it, allowing me to be like him and witness the grand spectacle of God's Aquarium. I am even more grateful for the wide sea that surrounds me, which allows me to dive into it and let me back. Semporna, where Sipadan is located, means "perfect" in the local language, and this confidence must have come from Sipadan. As the heart of the Coral Triangle, she breathes life into the Indo-Pacific tropical bioregion with unparalleled vitality, and may she always be as dazzling and alive as Jacques Cousteau praised as "an untouched work of art".
Filming tidbits: Six-banded trevally storm and huge rare trevally
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