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Avid outdoorsman and underwater photographer, Barry Brown has spent the last seven years documenting life above and below water in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. Focusing on the island's coral reefs, he has worked hand-in-hand with several businesses and environmental groups, including SECORE, a marine conservation organization based in the Netherlands. His image of a research submersible was recently featured on the cover of DIVER magazine.

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Oct 24, 09     Comments Off
Brittle Star

Brittle Star

Good evening my dear friends, are you getting the most out of your weekend??  Our days are spent mostly at the Sea Aquarium and then in the evening’s Aimee rushes home to walk the dogs in what little light we have left.  Today at 1:30 my friend Kenji and I went on a dive as we had no more programs for the rest of the day.  The water was pretty murky in the shallows plus big waves overhead didn’t help the visibility but we still had a pretty good dive.  Aimee and I were just looking at some of the photos I took today and in one photo of some encrusting sponge she spotted a see-thru shrimp that I accidentally took a nice photo of, I never even saw it??  This really seems to happen quite a bit, I shoot something and then get home to find another little treasure in the photo, let’s just call it a bonus!
 
This is a Sponge Brittle Star that Aimee found on the night we saw the grooved brain corals spawning over in front of Aqua Electra.  These sponge brittle stars don’t seem to be affected by light like their cousins the regular brittle stars, those guys are scared of everything!  Eva was with us the night we found this, Aimee kept me pretty busy with one cool find after another.
 
Gotta run, talk to you all tomorrow, Barry
24-10-2009
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