Captured on an Indonesian night dive with a Nikon D800E, this remarkable image reveals a tiny universe of undersea life
December 15, 2025
In the pitch-black waters above Indonesia’s Lembeh Strait, photographer Massimo Giorgetta encountered something quite incredible. A tunicate salp – a transparent, barrel-shaped marine animal barely five centimeters across – had become a floating sanctuary for an extraordinary array of marine life.
Protected Lives was captured on 14 April 2023, during what divers call a blackwater dive.