
DeepSee
Hello to all the adventures people of the world!
We are on our way back from an incredible trip at Cocos island. This trip we had 16 new deep sea explorers to join us on our dives!
Each dive was beautiful, and the visibility this week was endless! The thermocline was full of tunicates. When the tunicate dies it falls to the bottom where it is feasted upon by crabs, sea urchins and fish.
We also enjoyed encounters with giant mantas and mobulas at depths of 165m!Some sharks came down to visit as well. We even saw a hammerhead at a depth of 220m!
Underwater, some of the creatures have their special ways of camouflaging, so that the predators will not pray upon them, or that the prey will not see that they are just about to hunt. For example, the decorated crab holds a leaf and carries it with it all around!
And this beautiful stone colored frogfish merges amazingly with the rock. It uses its lure to attract little fish, and when they are close enough it swallows them up.
The deep ocean is a wonderful and mysterious underwater world; come and join us to observe these amazing creatures that live their lives under great pressure and darkness. It is a very different life than the upper world close to the surface, and absolutely spectacular.
Yours truly,
The pilots.




