No, it’s not a still from Sanctum – although James Cameron’s new diving film was inspired by a near-catastrophic expedition by the man who took these pictures, Wes C Skiles.
This is a real photograph from one of the most mysterious environments in the world. You could visit Abaco Island, in the Bahamas, and have no idea that beneath you lies this vast network of caves, accessible by as many as a thousand ‘blue holes’ – submerged vertical caves peppered with entrances to this forbidding domain.
Sadly, the photographer who took these pictures, acclaimed underwater photographer Wes Skiles, died last year after finishing an assignment for National Geographic where he was diving off the eastern coast of Florida.
