I slept until
4am which is pretty good. Finally, some
silly antics are breaking out on the boat.
During one
kinda boring dive, Pirjot went and found a yellow crinoid and put it on her
hoodie and swam over to me like there was nothing wrong and started shooting a
photo right in front of me. I saw that
there were tons of yellow crinoid stickies on her glove but then when I looked
up, I about lost it that she had a huge crinoid crown on. After the dive I started singing “Dancing
Queen” just replacing the word Dancing for Crinoid.
Although the
water temperature here is around 80 degrees, the dives are so long that often
many of us get really cold. After one of
the dives, Mike jumped in the camera rinse tank (after the cameras were out of
course) to warm up. Some dive boats have
hot tubs, but this one doesn’t.
Then Mike found
a Nudibranch that looked like a Phyllidiella pustulosa but it had gills. This is pretty special and something
Christianne had not seen before. So
first she scolded Mike and asked why he did not show her it. Then Mike thought he might be able to find it
again. So we went back to the same site
for the night dive, but finding a nudibranch at all is like finding a needle in
a haystack. But trying to find one again
is Mission Impossible. So after the dive
briefing, Graham started singing the theme to Mission Impossible and then after
his boat left, I wrote on the board:
Results of Mission
Impossible:
Success
-> Mike drinks free all night
Fail
-> Mike walks the plank
With two check
boxes so they could check the box.
No nudi was
found, but we all had a good laugh.
Bill is working
on a slideshow for the end of the trip.
I need to work on which 10 to submit.
They don’t have to all be nudis.
Hmmm…
77 - Nembrotha
sp. 5
78 - Paradoris sp. 5
79 - Cadlinella ornatissima
80 - Flabellina exoptata
81 - Phyllidiopsis sinaiensis
82 - Phyllodesmium colemani
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