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Great dive gentlemen and can't wait to do it again.
Matt.
I do have that affect on sea mice :-DLinedog wrote:Any Sea Mouse is disheveled with Scubie around.
I just looked at some online pictures and would say that's it. Weirdest thing I have seen so far......mpenders wrote:According to Scoobie, it was a Disheveled Sea Mouse. I'll post pics later - we just finished diving among the giant nudibranchs with Dusty and Kim at Fox Island West Wall
Wow, google only revealed a handful of pics. I wonder if it is a rare find? It sure was cool.Mateo1147 wrote:I just looked at some online pictures and would say that's it. Weirdest thing I have seen so far......mpenders wrote:According to Scoobie, it was a Disheveled Sea Mouse. I'll post pics later - we just finished diving among the giant nudibranchs with Dusty and Kim at Fox Island West Wall
Scubie Doo wrote: Wow, google only revealed a handful of pics. I wonder if it is a rare find? It sure was cool.
The spines, or setae,[2] that emerge from the scaled back of the sea mouse are one of its unique features. Normally, these have a red sheen, warning off predators, but when the light shines on them perpendicularly, they flush green and blue, a "remarkable example of photonic engineering by a living organism". These colors are believed to be a defense mechanism, giving warning to potential predators. The effect is produced by many hexagonal cylinders within the spines, which "perform much more efficiently than man-made optical fibres".[1]