No doubt all you keen weather watchers would've noticed the number of red blobs working their way across the Indian Ocean of late. The result of those red blobs is an Indo season that is coming on very strong.

It's fair to say that John Skuja noticed them also, and not just from the distant perch of his home computer either. John and his shipmates experienced the result of those blobs first hand.

All photos by John Skuja from a recent Mentawai mission.//STUART NETTLE