Diving Luminescent Reefs
“It’s so hard to find good, cheap sushi here,”
Sarah exclaims as she tries to find nori sheet sellers on Instagram.
The bell of an ice-cream vendor clinks away as the Singaporean sun blazes down on asphalt – an incentive for more residents to consider a cooling refreshment? I increase the fan speed, listen to the clink clank of the bell subsiding as I refocus on the interview subject sharing one half of my screen. I suddenly catch the unintended irony of Sarah’s statement.
“Wait, you live in the Maldives surrounded by fish. You work in fisheries!” I blurt out.
“When I’m reef diving, I can see things on the outside and see the idea of it, but you can’t poke your head into a rock or crevice,” Sarah explains, “but when you’re inside of a cave, that’s being in their
