Award-winning shot captures sea creature clinging to trash

Wake-up call: Toh (below) hopes the photo he shot conveys the urgent need to protect the environment. — The Straits Times/ANN

He was in the waters off the Philippines in January when he chanced upon a lone nautilus clinging on to a plastic bag.

Toh Xing Jie immediately snapped three pictures of the shelled deep-sea creature while about 20m underwater.