Underwater Photography by Jay Torborg 

"Clathrina Sponge"

Sponges are extremely interesting animals; they have no internal organs, and all life functions are performed by individual cells. There are numerous specialties among the cells, which come together to form the sponge. Even after being separated from each other by being pressed through a sieve, sponge cells will come back together and reform a new sponge.

This sponge was photographed in about 35 feet of water off the south Kohala Coast near the Mauna Lani Resort on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Photographed with a Nikon N90s in a Sea&Sea NX90 housing with two Ikelite 200 strobes. Nikon 60mm f2.8 macro lens. Fuji Provia 100F transparency film scanned with a Nikon LS-2000.

Copyright Jay Torborg  2001