To avoid a painful bite, Bajau fisherman, Imran, will catch this box fish by placing his thumb and forefinger in its eye sockets and, once it is essentially blindfolded, he will lead it back towards his boat. The Bajau (Bajo) Laut are an ethnic group of Malay origin, they have for centuries lived out their lives almost entirely at sea, plying a tract of ocean between Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia.