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 ABOUTfeatured: 30 Best Snorkeling Blogs Fun Ways to enjoy the caribbeanAug 18, 10 Comments Off
Good morning all, look what I found yesterday! Cool huh? Months ago Mark, from the World famous Dive Bus Hut and I were diving the Superior and he found one of these but at the time I was holding a 10.5mm wide angle lens and the most we could do was take pictures in our heads! So yesterday as I was out waiting for the sub to come out of the channel I looked down and spotted another! I again had the wrong camera but at least this time I had another diver with me. What I did was hand my camera off to my friend and gently scooped him up with a little piece of plastic and slowly carried him back up to the surface. Once at the sub platform I yelled for someone to grab me a plastic container with holes, I then set him in there and left him under our platform in the sand while I got out and prepared another camera with a macro lens in another housing. I think I was only out for around five minutes. I again jumped in the water, swam down to the bottom with my new camera and gently picked up my colorful nudibranch (who was crawling all around the inside of the plastic container). I then swam back out the channel and down to 50 feet to the exact spot I had found him and let him out for his little photo shoot. Once released he went right back to his feeding and I shot away. This little Caribbean beauty is only a 1/2 an inch long by 1/4th of an inch wide, he’s tiny!! There are more than 3,000 known species of nudibranch, and new ones are being identified almost daily. They are found throughout the word’s oceans, but are most abundant in shallow, tropical waters. Their scientific name, Nudibranchia, means naked gills, and describes the feathery gills and horns that most wear on their backs. I wish I could give you a name but so far I haven’t found it, if anyone knows please drop me a line, it’s another first for the Browns.
My other exciting thing that happened yesterday was that we almost flooded a camera! We started using an older Nikon D-200 yesterday that will be used mainly for the sub. Well, we had already had the camera in the water when I found the nudibranch and it was fine but the second dive it started to leak and it started to leak bad! Thank goodness my friend Kevin was with me, he pointed to the front of the camera and the dome was quickly filling up with water but had not hit the lens let! I shot to the surface and held the camera up out of the water and at the same time un-clipped one of the main body clips and released the water! I then re-clipped it and swam to the rocks were people on shore raced over and grabbed it and took it back to the sub-station. The good news is the camera never got wet, we saved it but we don’t have a clue where it is leaking, that’s on the to-do list today. I have flooded 3 cameras since I have been doing this and finally have learned how to save them. Get that camera to the surface, keep it up-right at all times and release the trapped water as fast as you can, it works!
After work I met 3 other friends for a fast one hour bike ride, other than breaking my chain in half it was a great ride!
I need to get moving, have a wonderful day, enjoy the nudibranch he’s just for you! Barry
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