日本水下麦田怪圈景观

Japan's underwater crop circles

位置：日本

分类：滨水

内容：实景照片

图片来源：Yoji Ookata

完成时间：2014年

图片：5张

摄影师：Yoji Ookata

超过70%的地球被水覆盖，但海洋仍然是世界上最神秘的地方。深海摄影师兼潜水员Yoji Ookata发现了一些他记录日本海岸海底世界50年来从未见过的景象：它是在低于海平面80英尺的沙滩上的一个漂亮的圆形结构，它的雕刻非常准确，看起来像一个深海麦田怪圈。

这个圆形结构是沙绘制成的荡漾的循环模式，直径6英尺。Ookata对这个发现留下了深刻的印象，并接受了NHK电视摄制组记录下这个错综复杂的设计。很快，他们发现这个图案是由小河豚鱼设计的。小河豚鱼不知疲倦地日夜工作，创建这个水下艺术品来吸引雌鱼在保护中心存放她的鱼卵。鱼卵放置在圆圈的中心，远离山脊和山谷带来的洋流的影响，所以越复杂的设计越能吸引更多的雌鱼。

译者： 饭团小组

More than 70 percent of our planet is covered with water, yet the oceans are still the most mysterious parts of the world. Deep-sea photographer and diver Yoji Ookata discovered something he had never seen in his 50 years documenting the underwater world off the coast of Japan: a beautiful circular structure on the sand, about 80 feet below sea level that was so accurately carved that it looks like a deep-sea crop circle.

The circular pattern of rippling sand is 6 feet in diameter and Ookata, impressed with his discovery, took a NHK TV crew to document its intricate design. They soon found out that a small puffer fish was responsible for the design. The fish work tirelessly, day and night, creating this underwater work of art to attract a female fish to deposit her eggs in the protected center. The eggs rest in the center of the circle, shielded from the ocean currents by the ridges and valleys, so the more intricate the design is, the more females it is bound to attract.

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