It's like finding a Conservation Fee payment slip at the bottom of the
ocean... <cue Atlantis Morisette music> Isn’t it ironic? Don’t you think?
At the end of one of our dives, Bree practiced deploying her
safety sausage on a reel… and it got all caught up and started dragging her to
the surface. Luckily I grabbed her fin
and she let go of it.
One of our dive sites today was Betheleham. After the dive, we were acting silly and
dressed Bree up like virgin Mary holding her baby (the water bottle). The boat crew were three wise men… and then
there were the villagers. I video’ed the
group of us, we were laughing so much.
Mike collected an awesome specimen the night before and came
to us to ask us to return it on tonight’s night dive. I got to shoot a really rare nudi called the
Limenandra barnosii!!
The night dive was FANTASTIC!
At the end of the night dive, I changed my light because it
ran out of power. Then I felt that my air was drawing kinda tough so I looked
at my gage and I was down to 200 psi.
Whoops! I went right to my safety
stop.
Lindz and I have taken to talking to each other in our
respective accents. Me in high English
and her in American southern accents.
Hilarious.
While reviewing my photos, I was reminded that I should
always take a picture of the nudi even if I think it’s boring. Two flabellinas I thought were boring
underwater turned out to be two new cuthonas for me!
We have the internet here, so I caught some activity on
Facebook. Point B made Crains Chicago
Business Best Places to Work and the picture of me in the Caribbean Reef
habitat at Shedd Aquarium and my coworkers outside of it made the site!
New Nudis today:
140 - Hypselodoris purpureomaculosa
141 - Phyllidia ocellata
142 - Dendronotus regius
143 - Cuthona sp. 4
144 - Favorinus mirabilis
145 - Cuthona sp. 2
146 - Noumeaella sp. 6
147 - Aegires sp. 6
148 - Hypselodoris cf maculosa
149 - Unknown (small white with yellow margin and white dots
on rhinophores and gill)
150 - Flabellina sp. 7
151 - Limenandra barnosii
152 - Hypselodoris zephyra
153 - Eubranchus sp. 1
154 - Pleurobranchus weberi
155 - Janolus sp. 7
156 - Goniobranchus leopardus
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