Swimming with the fishes
May. 30th, 2023 04:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tiggymalvern
After slacking off the for the last couple of months while I prioritised writing, I finally got back to the dive video from my trip to the Revillagigedos Islands around the New Year. I made two videos from the dives we did at Cabo Pearce on the island of Socorro.
The first one is mainly mantas again, because can you really get tired of giant oceanic mantas? There are a few shots including the Clarion Angelfish, a cleaner species endemic to the islands, with orange head and tail and a darker body between. And then there was the impressively large school of scalloped hammerheads that came by twice (I'm assuming the same ones on both occasions, but who knows for sure?) The youtube compression really didn't like the first, more distant shot of hammerheads though.
https://youtu.be/mxXkFgVQMNQ
For our third dive at Cabo Pearce, the current had picked up a LOT, and the vis was considerably worse. There were still mantas around, but the footage wasn't going to be good, and after about five minutes I decided to tuck myself in on the lee side of the finger and investigate the reef critters, which included some nudis and a nice octopus.
On the final dive, half of the group decided to skip the manta cleaning station and instead dive the boulder reef at the base of the cliff. It made for a fun, low drama, shallow dive to end the trip, with a lot of fish species we hadn't seen on the deeper dives. And that's also when I saw Tohbi, the juvenile male manta that I was allowed to name because I got an ID shot of him. (Tohbi means rabbit or hare in the language of the indigenous people who live around the Sea of Cortez, and he had four spots that look like the footprints left by a hare in snow.)
https://youtu.be/yG5MqOUET-M
It seems so LONG ago now...
The first one is mainly mantas again, because can you really get tired of giant oceanic mantas? There are a few shots including the Clarion Angelfish, a cleaner species endemic to the islands, with orange head and tail and a darker body between. And then there was the impressively large school of scalloped hammerheads that came by twice (I'm assuming the same ones on both occasions, but who knows for sure?) The youtube compression really didn't like the first, more distant shot of hammerheads though.
https://youtu.be/mxXkFgVQMNQ
For our third dive at Cabo Pearce, the current had picked up a LOT, and the vis was considerably worse. There were still mantas around, but the footage wasn't going to be good, and after about five minutes I decided to tuck myself in on the lee side of the finger and investigate the reef critters, which included some nudis and a nice octopus.
On the final dive, half of the group decided to skip the manta cleaning station and instead dive the boulder reef at the base of the cliff. It made for a fun, low drama, shallow dive to end the trip, with a lot of fish species we hadn't seen on the deeper dives. And that's also when I saw Tohbi, the juvenile male manta that I was allowed to name because I got an ID shot of him. (Tohbi means rabbit or hare in the language of the indigenous people who live around the Sea of Cortez, and he had four spots that look like the footprints left by a hare in snow.)
https://youtu.be/yG5MqOUET-M
It seems so LONG ago now...
