Bahama Islands,
1986
Photograph by James L. Stanfield
Crabbers hunt for their quarry by torchlight on the Bahamas' Samana Cay. Many historians think that the island's Lucayan Indians using the same hunting technique may have been the lights "like a small wax candle" that Christopher Columbus wrote about in his diary before his fleet found land here in October of 1492.
(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Where Columbus Found the New World," November 1986, National Geographic magazine)