Look at the photograph above. Shot underwater off the Caribbean island of Barbuda, it shows a mass of abandoned fishing nets wrapped around the hull and propeller of a sailing yacht. The water is clear, the colors are striking, the composition is strong, and the story it tells is immediately legible: this boat is in serious trouble.
What makes it extraordinary is the context. Photographer Kirstin Jones didn't set any of this up. She was simply on the boat when it happened. Caught in the nets in rough seas, she and her crew managed to sail their steel 43-foot yacht slowly, without engine, into a sheltered anchorage, where it took more than an hour to clear the hull.
