"Every time you turned around, there was something strange going on," says Palumbi. "You couldn't look in any direction without seeing one or two," he says.īut there was also an atmosphere of the abnormal – a scattering of uncanny clues that this place was different.
What he and his fellow researchers found was a forgotten world of astonishing abundance – grazing herds of plump parrotfish, eight-metre- high (26ft) forests of branching corals, humphead wrasse the size of baby rhinos… and sharks. It was the summer of 2016 and Palumbi – a professor of marine sciences at Stanford University – was on an expedition, scuba diving to assess the state of an obscure patch of reef in the Central Pacific.
As Stephen Palumbi looked around the deep blue water, he had the eerie impression that something wasn't right.
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