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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanJan 10, 09 Comments Off
 split-shell Good evening friends, what a busy day I had! First of all let me explain this photo a bit. I did two dives with the sub today leaving them at 100 feet. Well on the second trip they came back with this very rare Split Shell collected at around 500 plus feet!! What Aimee is holding here is worth around $2000 dollars and has only been seen by a handful of people, is that cool or what? I know what your thinking, “how did they pick it up”?? Glad you asked. This new sub has a cool first of it’s kind robot arm on one side and now has a collecting bucket on the other side, it’s pretty much up to the sub pilot to get as close as possible then the person in front uses a joystick to operate the arm which had a small net attached and carefully dumps it in the bucket. My question again is, “why is something so colorful living in complete darkness and at such great depth”?? I was trusted to bring the shell home for a short time to my little indoor studio I made, and let me tell you I was nervous the whole time but had a blast shooting it! As I learn more about this shell I will tell you, am sure we will be finding more cool stuff as well so stay tuned.
I also did another great snorkel with our dolphins today, got some really fun pictures that I know everyone will love. I am up late tonight had to get these shell photos ready for Dutch to see tomorrow, this is a good case of there are not enough hours in the day!! That’s about it in a nutshell, I am really tired and headed to bed, hope you enjoy the beautiful shell, Barry
01-10-2009
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