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#Grateful for experiences, the #sharks #ocean & my team 🦈💙 @oneoceandiving . This is a special deep water place @juansharks ❤️introduced me to years ago that we rarely go & an image he’s wanted to capture for years #DreamComeTrue. Meet #tigersharkviolet named after @savingjawsmovie director @keonishoots daughter Violet for the V split in her right pectoral. (2nd photo is Violet, Keoni, and Sky when they found a baby hammerhead at chocolates that someone had killed and left on the beach 💔) This summer #JuanSharks and I are starting to offer a new longer & advanced @oneoceandiving @oneoceanresearch #AdvancedOneOcean #Shark program for those who want to learn even more in depth information about shark behavior and get much sharks with higher chances of encountering #TigerSharks and other deep water #pelagicSharks #LearnAboutSharks it’s Not #SharkWeek it’s #SharkLife trying to #KeepSharksAlive #helpsavesharks #StopSharkFishing say #NoSharkFinSoup #savetheocean See @oneoceanconservation for more ways to get involved with #sharkconservation Check out @juansharks for better photos of #sharkidviolet & #freediving photos with @mermaid_kayleigh @waterinspired @sharksummers @oneoceanglobal @sharkysophie @oneoceansharks for video and @ge_keoni @oneoceanhawaii for video of #SharkIDSparkles #TigerSharkSparkles he spotted this morning #grateful #oneoceandiving (at Oneoceandiving.com)

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The Gruesome History of the First Underwater Film

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Bobbit Worms are predatory marine worms capable of growing up to 3m.  Bobbit attacks can be so vicious they fully bisect their prey.  Having no eyes,  they catch prey when one of their five antennae are triggered.

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This strange creature was found on the sea floor In Bali. It turned out to be a carnivorous nudibranch.

[the-meme--queen]

A what now

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meat-eating nakedstick

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WTF

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@lokifenokee

[lokifenokee]

That’s Melibe viridis!  These things are fabulous!  All nudibranchs are carnivorous, but these are particularly weird with their big fishing-net mouth.  They use it to catch small crustaceans (or anything else, really).

The nudibranch will fling it out across the sand like a net, then little sensory appendages feel if there’s anything in it.  If they catch something, the edges draw back in to slurp it up.

There’s video of it here!

[tamatoa-teoteomona]

//This reminds me of some cone snail vids I was watching the other night.

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[i-am-seawolf]

Humpback Whales (Life Story, BBC)

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[csnews]

Country diary: bottlenose dolphin attack shatters Flipper illusions 

John Lister-Kaye - June 18, 2018

There are occasions when nature shatters our cosy assumptions. Last week we were watching the bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) on the Moray Firth, much loved by tourists because they come so close to shore. They flip and leap, roll and dive, singly or in pods of a dozen or more, only a few yards from camera-clicking visitors thronging the shingle spit.

The dolphins gather in the Chanonry narrows to feast on salmon migrating upstream to spawn. We often see salmon being flung high in the air and swallowed whole. A feeding spectacle. We know dolphins eat fish and we are comfortable with it. But what we witnessed in front of our lenses that day spun us into shock. Forget film-star Flipper, forget frolicking Fungie in Dingle Bay, forget chummy Sebastian in Disney’s Shark Tale – these Moray Firth dolphins are killers.

[wrasse72]

Yes Dolphins can be complete a holes too!

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[anudibranchaday]

The Dendronotus iris is often called the Giant nudibranch, and for good reason. This nudibranch can grow to a whopping 30cm in length! It lives in muddy subtidal areas from northern Alaska to northern Mexico, at most 200m below the surface. Like many other nudibranchs, the Giant nudibranch has a very specific diet- it feeds solely on the tendrils of the tube-dwelling anemone (as seen in the picture). Funnily enough, the anemones sometimes pull the nudibranch into their tube when they try to hide, although no one seems to be harmed in the process.

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[todropscience]

NOT TWO, BUT SIX SPECIES OF OPAH! 

Opah or moonfishes (genus Lampris)  currently  comprises  two  species,   Opah (Lampris  guttatus) and Southern Opah (Lampris immaculatus) presently known in both hemispheres in all oceans from tropical, temperate and sub-polar waters. But a new genetic and morphometric study describes three news species, and resurrects a opah species described in 1830, we have now 6 new opah species. 

As they are present in fisheries, fish buyers, initially noted variations in the appearance of opahs. Further  investigation  of  external  characteristics revealed that some specimens had a noticeably smaller eye diameter relative to body length and possessed variable spotting patterns and body pigmentation, proving that there were more than two species.

Though no directed fishery currently exists for opahs, their common  occurrence as bycatch and growing culinary popularity make these fishes a valued, and thus retained, addition to commercial fisheries. Also, opah (Lampris guttatus) have the ability of circulate warm-blood throughout the body, so it is the only known fish that has warm-blood. The endothermy in opah differs from other endothermic fishes in that they are able to circulate warm blood throughout their entire body and thus being the only fish group known that is able to elevate the temperature of their heart. This allows them to maintain enhanced physiological function at depth without returning to the surface to warm the heart.

Opahs often exhibit rapid vertical diving behavior, recent electronic tagging in the Pacific Ocean has documented Lampris spp.from the surface to depths in excess of 500 m.  

• Image: Species of opah (in order)   Southern OpahLampris immaculatus, common opah Lampris guttatus, Southern Spotted Opah Lampris australensis, East Atlantic Opah Lampris lauta, Bigeye Pacific OpahLampris megalopsis and Smalleye Pacific OpahLampris incognitus.
  
• Reference: Underkoffler et al., 2018. A taxonomic review of Lampris guttatus (Brünnich 1788) Lampridiformes; Lampridae) with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa
  

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opah winfey

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he wiggle and scream

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aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

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[csnews]

Do dolphins feel grief?

Virginia Morell - June 19, 2018

When an adult striped dolphin emerged from the Mediterranean Sea in 2016 pushing, nudging, and circling the carcass of its dead female companion for more than an hour, a nearby boat of scientists fell silent. Afterward, the students aboard said they were certain the dolphin was grieving. But was this grief or some other response? In a new study, researchers are attempting to get to the bottom of a mystery that has plagued behavioral biologists for 50 years.

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[agenderjeri]

A Basking Shark not feeding is a lot less scary with its huge mouth closed.
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This is a #repost from @baskingsharkscotland via @PhotoAroundApp
We’ve had everything from dolphin super pods to sunfish this past week and let’s not forget the sharks! Lots of food around for the sharks so we’ve seen a lot of feeding as well as some other interesting behaviours like breaching (yes this giant animal can propel itself fully out of the water!). This particular individual was cruising while it looked for some denser patches of zooplankton. #baskingsharkscotland #scotland #hebrides #wildlife #shark #sharks #baskingshark #underwater #BaskingSharks #underwaterphotography #ocean #gopro #brilliantmoments #lovescotland

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A fish is swimming upriver and bumps it’s head.

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Dam.

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[lifeunderthewaves]

2018-05-07 023.jpg by H-Shige