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— "Tell me, how far is the nearest land?"

— "About a mile, madam."

— "Oh, that’s wonderful! Which direction?"

"The schooner-yacht "Volage" is Lord Colville's"-Richard Brydges Beechey (1808–1895) was an Anglo-Irish painter and admiral in the Royal Navy.

The shooting took place in preparation for the autumn-winter issue of the French magazine Purple Fashion Magazine (Issue No. 12, Autumn/Winter 2009). The pictures were published in September 2009.

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🔥Bloody-belly comb jelly with glowing prey inside

Video: MBARI

Many of the deep-sea animals the bloody-belly comb jelly preys upon can bioluminesce, or create their own light. The translucent predator needs to conceal its stomach—or risk its most recent meal lighting it up from the inside out and alerting potential predators to its whereabouts. Red is nearly invisible in the deep sea, so the vibrant crimson that gives this comb jelly its name is actually helping it hide from its predators. The blood-red stomach disguises the glowing prey inside.