Dance of the Information Submariner

Sometimes, when you stumble across a stock photo, its intended use isn't always obvious straight away. For example:




























What illustrative need does he meet?

But after a moment's thought, it's clear. The beard. The lustrous wooly jumper. The low-cut vest just visible beneath the lustrous wooly jumper. It's a salty submariner! And what is he peeking through? A CD-Rom containing the important top secret nuclear missile access codes for the nuclear missiles on board his nuclear submarine.

Picture editors who need to illustate articles about the importance of security of CD-Roms containing the important top secret nuclear missule access codes for the nuclear missiles on board nuclear submarines account for almost a fifth of all stock photography purchases. If it wasn't for pictures like this, popular newstand magazines such as Amateur Nuclear Submariner, Nuclear Submarine Hobbyist, Undersea Antics, Your Periscope, Which Navy of Death?, Sea Bastard and The Torpedo Times would be mostly blank.

He's really taunting us with that CD-Rom containing the important top secret nuclear missile access codes for the nuclear missiles on board his nuclear submarine, isn't he? But he's not going to give it up! However much we want it. Ah ah-ah ah!

See the Dance of the Information Submariner.