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Burrowing Brittle Stars Transport Food Along Arms
California, Indonesia and the Philippines — 2013-2017
Burrowing brittle stars bury themselves in sand or rubble bottoms with two or three legs sticking up. They use the protruding legs to filter feed, then sequentially flex their tube feet to transfer the food particles down along the arms and into their mouths.
added 11/7/2020
Palos Verdes Dives – October 2020 from the
Giant Stride
Palos Verde Peninsula, CA — October 2020
Two more dive days in October brought us more of the usual Palos Verdes subjects: nudibranchs, snails, skeleton shrimps, juvenile pinto abalone and other small invertebrates.
added 11/7/2020
Amphipod Attacks Pteraeolidia Eating Its Hydroid Home
Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia — July 2015
Colorful flea-sized amphipods can often be found living on flower-like hydroids on the sandy slopes of the Indo-Pacific. Unfortunately for the amphipods, these hydroids are a favorite food of several nudibranchs. Here, one plucky little amphipod tries in vain to defend his hydroid home.
added 10/17/2020
Diving the White Point Outfall Pipe on the Giant Stride, September 26, 2020
Palos Verde Peninsula, CA — September 2020
Our good friend and dive buddy Walter has been trying to get us to dive the sewer outfall pipe at White Point for a while. This week we finally listened to him—and we’re glad we did! The pipe and surrounding rocks are covered with small fish, nudis, colorful snails and loads of juvenile abalone.
added 9/30/2020
Catalina Island on the Giant Stride,
September 19, 2020
Catalina Island, CA — September 2020
A trip out to one of our Channel Islands looking for California mantis shrimps. We found a bunch, along with orangethroat pikeblennies and some other nice video subjects.
added 9/23/2020
Lined Sea Hare Mating Aggregation
Triton Bay and Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia — 2015-2019
Stylocheilus striatus, also known as a lined sea hare, is a sea slug that can be found in tropical oceans around the world. They sometimes form mating chains or large aggregations to increase fertilization efficiency. In one case here, an emperor shrimp joins the party.
added 9/23/2020
Hot Summer Days Diving on the Cool Palos Verdes Reefs
Palos Verde Peninsula, CA — August/September 2020
A highlight reel from our most recent two days out on the Giant Stride. I shot mostly the itty bitty critters as usual, including a pretty red-banded snapping shrimp I had never seen before.
added 9/8/2020
Diving the Palos Verdes Reefs on the Giant Stride, August 15, 2020
Palos Verde Peninsula, CA — August 2020
Another day out on our local reefs on our favorite boat with our favorite dive buddies. As usual, I spent my dives searching out and shooting nudibranchs and other teeny weeny subjects.
added 8/18/2020
Peanut Worm Feeds
Tulamben, Bali, Indonesia — February 2014
Peanut worms, also called sipunculans, are a phylum of worms rarely spotted by divers. Most live in shallow water buried under sand, mud, stones or in rocky crevices. To feed, they extend their anterior section, called the introvert, to collect food particles then draw them into the mouth as the introvert is retracted.
added 7/26/2020
Sea Apples Feed
Komodo and Alor, Indonesia — 2014-2020
Sea apples are a brightly colored type of sea cucumber that live primarily in the cooler-water areas of the Indo-Pacific. Watching them feed is equal parts mesmerizing and disturbing.
added 7/26/2020
Cold and Green on July 17, Palos Verdes on the Giant Stride
Palos Verde Peninsula, CA — July 2020
50℉ water and 10 foot visibility didn’t stop our intrepid group from spotting some nice nudibranchs and other tiny critters, and I had another special find with a rarely-seen-around-here Trapania velox at the very end of the last dive.
added 7/22/2020
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