Wearing a footballer’s strip of yellow, striped boarfish idle beneath boulders at the Kermadecs. The topography keeps them safe from marauding sharks, and the proposed Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary may save their kind from fishers too.

This is 360-VR video—grab to pan on a desktop, just move a mobile device around you, or hit the headset button to play in a Google Cardboard-compatible headset (iOS devices will need you to download an app.) All devices can be fullscreened for the most compelling experience.