A very large juvenile diamond squid - this one measuring in at a whopping 3” - perhaps the 2nd largest I’ve ever seen!
Shot in the wild, using scuba, while out over the deep abyss, several miles offshore from Okinawa
#diamondsquid #thysanoteuthisrhombus #blackwaterdiving #gug #gugunderwater
Not on this one, sadly. I checked.
A sea urchin on sand. It has short spines arranged in clumps; they have whitish bulbs below the tip. There is a ring of longer yellow spines at the base of the urchin. Many of the spines have electric blue rings on the lower sections. The body of the urchin is tan-coloured with darker areas. #UnderwaterPhotography #Wildlife #WildlfiePhotography
Fire Urchin (Asthenosoma varium), Anilao. These are always worth checking for commensal shrimp and crabs, and they often get all the attention, but urchins are also pretty cool in their own right.
#MarineLife #echinoderms #Invertebrates 🌿
I'd swap Stephen Miller for Trump (I think nature will take its course there relatively soon; Miller's more of a long-term threat), and Sam Altman for MBS.
What would be funny would be if they both immediately put out statements saying, "I'm not dropping out, therefore Trump needs to endorse me"
Huh. I did NOT know there were Australian land flatworms that were BLUE with a white racing stripe! #wormwednesday www.inaturalist.org/observations...
Today, in things that should surprise absolutely nobody.
Seriously, if you care even a slightest bit about your own privacy, you need to avoid these like the plague... and that includes anyone foolish enough to wear them.
I still think he died months ago and what we're seeing is some sort of animated corpse robotics project where the text-to-speech function really doesn't work very well even when it doesn't completely glitch out.
A fish swimming in front of a reef. It has large scales with an orange belly, and the green scales on its back have dark blue centres. The upper face is green with pink lines; the bottom of its head is light blue, with dark blue diagonal lines on the lower gill cover. There is a bright green patch on the tail although it's hard to see the shape as the tail is folded. #UnderwaterPhotography #WildlifePhotography #Wildlife
Wrasses can be surprisingly hard to identify. You'd think the distinctive colours would make it straightforward... but there are a LOT of them, and some are fairly similar, and their colours can vary.
This is (I think) a Linedcheek Wrasse (Oxycheilinus digramma). Pic from Anilao.
#MarineLife 🐟🌿
True, but... there was a time I'd visit the US regularly. I stopped during the first Trump administration because it wasn't a place I wanted to go any more.
Did I go back in the Biden years? No. Not a boycott... I've just gotten used to doing other things.
And that's how it'll be when Trump's gone.
I posted that song yesterday, too. Utterly depressing how relevant it remains.
I would also like a bed like this to snooze on
LOL. I didn't even notice the typo!
Yup. The buoyancy, the not exhaling through your nose at all...
I could live with that, but the checks and having to really watch your console all the time would get me eventually. I'd get distracted and miss something and... that wouldn't be good.
Yeah, I did that once. When you can pour half a cup of rust-coloured seawater out of your strobe after the dive... it's probably done. ☠️ ☠️ ☠️
Although being able to go deep to see new and even more fascinating critters would be very cool. But I'm in no danger of running out of them at normal OC depths!
TBH, eliminating the bubbles so I can get closer to skittish things is the only thing that's ever tempted me about rebreathers. Way too much hassle and expense otherwise, and I'm not particularly into stuff like caves and going deep that you'd really need one for.
Oh no. A leaky first stage you can fix, but a flooded strobe is... $$$
Okay, now I'll believe it.
Yeah, they've been in different places every time I've visited Bonaire. Last time I was there we saw a bunch of them in the sand at the top of the reef at the dive site by the salt works intake channel (I forget its name now). But it was nice to be able to spend time with them in shallow water.
Well... patience, and taking a photo every couple of inches that you move forward, and holding your breath while you do all that because bubbles are apparently really scary :)
And also a good macro lens is very helpful. I was probably six feed or so away from the closest ones when I took that
But was this somewhere around the Hooker? There's usually garden eels there on the sand between the reefs, and it's a busy spot
Yep... a bit of peace and quiet will definitely be required.
Garden eels
I think I've posted this before, but here's some that I saw in Anilao
Ooooh... leaving the camera on a timer and backing off is a good idea! I'll have to try that next time I get the chance
Now that I think of it... salps aren't just food and shelter - they're transport, too. The diel migration might be only a few hundred meters each way, but it's a daily trip and that's a good hike when you're only the size of a pea :)
Garden eels are always lovely to see. I just wish they weren't so shy!
New Canadian trade deal with India only allows for 1 assassination per year
Might have been... there's certainly some critters that do that! And thanks!
You can bomb the world to pieces
But you can't bomb it into peace
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