Seafarers used to call the calm, shallow waters between Cuba and Florida ‘Baja mar’, or ‘shallow sea’. Today this area is marked on maps as the Bahamas. The sea between the 700 islands and more than 2,400 reefs that make up the Bahamas is often just a few metres deep. Its colour tells local people how far it is to the bright, sandy bottom: at less than 10 metres the sea looks green and turquoise, while deeper water appears blue.
The Bahamas are the peaks of a submarine limestone mountain range that built up over 190 million years, rising to today’s level of some 4,400 metres above the ocean floor.
TITLE |
BAJA MAR |
LOCATION |
Bahamas |
DATE |
June 2001 |
HEIGHT |
2.500 m |
TECHNIC |
Hasselblad body, Zeiss lens |
FORMAT |
medium format, 6 x 6 cm |
REMARK |
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