it's been a while since i last updated this; the reason being because i've been pretty busy! i've been swamped up with class and group projects these past two weeks and am currently working on an additional 3!
since all that stuff's pretty banal, since im betting you want to know more about the more exciting areas of marine biology, i'll tell you about night snorkeling.
night snorkeling is something that everybody should do. just because it's pretty freaky, especially near the drop off. i think part of it is because your vision is so limited, and in the back of your mind, you're going OCD because you're scared that your dive light might turn off. how funny because that's exactly what happened to me! good thing i had friends!
the night scene (underwater of course) looks drastically different than during the day. most of the fish you see during the day, are securely tucked inside the corals, and act rather stupidly (you could touch or even catch them if you wanted to) but the more ominous scene occurs near the frindge, where from the depths, you can see hundreds of Diadema sea urchings (the really really long spikey ones) emerge, and larger fish swimming out at night. can you imagine a shark swimming out at you from no where? (enter jaws theme)
on a cooler note, there are thousands of tiny phosflorescent light producing plankton, in which when you turn off the light, and swish the water, you see tiny explosions of light. and i also learned that it takes a lot for a pufferfish to inflate, mainly, stepping on it and pinning it to the ocean floor. i would have used my hands to spin it around like a ball, but i wasn't wearing any gloves :P
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Oh yeah, this is Kevin btw
Wait... you stepped on a pufferfish? Is that the one that they use to make that sushi that can paralyze you?
Oh and sorry about cluttering up your blog, the first post was under a screen name and I figured you'd be like "who is this guy?" so I deleted it but now it looks like I said something bad (I didn't, I said the first paragraph above but not this one), and then it says my name so now I don't need the second post but then things would be even more confusing.
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