If only I had gills, I would never want to come back up.

My only near-death experiences have happened in this habitat. Yet, I absolutely adore water and all the magnificent creatures living in it. To think that all forms of life originated from water! Thanks to that single, simple cell that one day, billions of years later, suddenly decided to multiply, and now here we are. Completely metamorphosed and adapted to breathe air outside of water. How incredible our planet is! One of my favorite podcast episodes of Radiolab is called Cellmates and it talks exactly about this.

Snorkeling here in the Indian ocean in Maldives, where visibility is usually up to 15-18 meters and where I first learned how to scuba dive. My life was never the same again.