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Travel to the Hidden Island in the Bay of Bengal

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Travel to the Hidden Island in the Bay of Bengal

There is a hidden island in Bangladesh’s blue waters of the Bay of Bengal. This island is submerged underwater for most of the year.

Migratory birds and red crabs inhabit this island, while speckled sandbanks are also covered by blue water on either side. It appears to be a magical island from a distance and remains unknown to many. It can be compared to Saint Martin, about 40 kilometers from the coast of Kuakata. The island is only visible during the winter and dry season when the water level decreases. Occasionally, fishermen visit this uninhabited island, but it is quite rare.

I traveled to this island from Barguna in the middle of the Bay of Bengal with some fishermen. The journey on their fishing trawler was thrilling, and upon reaching the island, it felt like stepping onto a heavenly shore.

Hidden Island in the Bay of Bengal

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Bangladesh has many islands along its coastal area, and in the past decade, several new islands have emerged, leading to a revision of the country’s map.

Some new islands have formed in the open sea, with a few visible only during the dry season, while others remain submerged throughout the year. Seagoing vessels, particularly fishing boats, and trawlers, often encounter these submerged islands cause they get stuck on them.

During my sea travels with fishermen in the southern districts of Barguna and Patuakhali, I encountered some of these islands one by one in my new Vlog, and I’ve included the first episode here. Feel free to check it out.

Delicious Ponyfish

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Delicious PonyfiSh​

Marine ponyfish are beautiful to look at and delicious to eat, although they have many bones. Fishermen on the Bangladeshi coast call them Thutuni Chanda.

The English name of this fish is Deep Pugnose Ponyfish. Scientific name Deveximentum Ruconius. They are found in the Indo-West Pacific: Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia, north to Taiwan, China, south to northern Australia and New Caledonia. This fish of the Deveximentum genus lives in freshwater as well as saltwater. They belong to the Leiognathidae family and have eight species.

A strange creature at the bottom of the Sea

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A strange creature at the bottom of the Sea

Travelling to the Bay of Bengal has always been a journey to discover something new. On the second day of my 13-day sea voyage, I saw a sea pen, a marine animal, and fish caught in fishermen’s nets.

At that time, I was in a fishermen’s trawler 35 kilometres off the coast of Barguna district in Bangladesh. The fishermen call it Rasgolla Misti, although they know little about it.

Some species of this sea pen look like ancient quill pens, which are made of bird feathers. That is why this creature is called a sea pen. The scientific name of this sea pen is Cavernularia Obesa. This creature is found in the Indo-Pacific region. This species is also called sea cactus. They are Bioluminescence.

Sea pens belong to the Pennatulacea order and the Octocorallia class. The body of the sea pen is very soft. They are found from shallow water to 20 thousand feet below the sea. However, they live more in the Benthic Zone of the sea floor.

Sea pens are filter feeders, meaning they have filtering organs in their bodies with which they eat organic matter, food particles, or tiny organisms from the water. Therefore, they are also called water-cleaning engineers of the ocean ecosystem. Depending on the species, these animals form separate colonies on the sea floor. They have 450 species in 35 genera and 14 families.

Sea pens are eaten by starfish and sea slugs or nudibranchs. Sea slugs look like snails. However, they do not have a hard shell.