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    Scuba anyone?

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    • J
      Jett129
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      Those are pretty freakin amazing!

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      • GilesG
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        Another Porcelain crab….

        Another Nudibranch

        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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        • goosehdG
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          Love these pictures…so Giles, you ever had crabs.... 🙂  Hope you're enjoying the trip!

          "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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          • GilesG
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            Yes actually.  University in the late 70's….....

            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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            • goosehdG
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              😃 😃  30 years ago…I had just started dating Laura, lived in Ottawa Canada and had friends who just returned from Baltimore, Maryland.  They had brought back some blue crabs for a big feast and invited me.  I phoned Laura to invite her to come along and asked her "have you ever had crabs"....still laugh about that one today.  🙂

              ...note: probably not a good question to ask someone who you've just started dating.... 😃

              "I don't give a shit what anyone else is doing, we will do what is best for us and our customers" - Giles P. :)

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              • GilesG
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                Ha….

                About 25 years ago when I was in corporate life, I went to some sort of business seminar.  I sat down next to some random guy.  As I settled down, he leant over a whispered in my ear, "Got rid of those crabs yet Giies?".......

                Turns out he was my roommate for my first year at Uni, we had not kept in touch, but he sure did remember my travails....

                "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                • GilesG
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                  Frogfish…..

                  Seahorse

                  Mantis Shrimp

                  Nudibranch

                  "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                  • GilesG
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                    Cuttle Fish

                    Nudibranch

                    Crab (carapace 2mm across)

                    "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                    • GilesG
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                      More Nudibranchs….

                      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                      • GilesG
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                        Pygmy seahorse - yeah it's effing tiny….....

                        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                          I can’t imagine how difficult it is to get a shot like that,or for that matter,any of the insanely beautiful pictures you’ve been posting.

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                            None of them mine of course 🙂

                            Harlequin Shrimp (about 1cm carapace)….

                            Mantis Shrimp, my favourite reef-thug.  One of them hit my pointer stick yesterday and I felt the jolt, and the things are no more than 3" long….

                            Factoid (stolen from the web).....A mantis punch arrives with the acceleration of a . 22-caliber bullet, 50 times faster than a human eye can blink. Underwater, the low pressure bubble left in the wake of the punch collapses upon itself in a burst of light and heat, reaching an estimated 8,500 degrees Fahrenheit.

                            "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                              I know that you didn’t take them but as someone who has ,at times,attempted underwater photography, I know how difficult it is. For starters the fish aren’t exactly posing, and your operating under water in a current. Add that to maintaining neutral buoyancy etc. And the list goes on.

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                              • mclaincauseyM
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                                Badass shots! Mantis “shrimps” also have hyper spectral vision and independent eyes in addition to the cavitation bubble claw. Amazing creatures.

                                Think it, be it.

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                                • GilesG
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                                  @mclaincausey:

                                  independent eyes

                                  I love watching them from above when they are in their burrows. Their eyes moving completely out of sync fascinates me…..

                                  "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                    Leaf fish

                                    Dragon fish

                                    Ghost pipefish

                                    Shrimp fish (and Paula)

                                    Turtle

                                    Cement mixer

                                    "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                      Nudibranch

                                      Octopus

                                      Garden eels

                                      Clown fish

                                      Turtle and human

                                      Porcelain crab (again, but one of my favourite critters to find - not difficult when you know where they live)

                                      Wheel

                                      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                      • JDelageJ
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                                        Lovely pictures! I've never seen mats shrimps; I'd like to. They are very cool indeed.

                                        Where are you Gilles? It looks like a super rich spot!

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                                        • GilesG
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                                          Mantis shrimp are fairly widespread in the tropics, the pretty ones mainly in the Indian and Pacific oceans.  I'm in Indonesia and have seen more free-swimming (rather than hiding in their burrows) ones here than anywhere else….

                                          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                          • JDelageJ
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                                            Aaah, very nice! Currently looking at options for Raja Amat…

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