Dive #222 - Rich Torkington's Dive Log

Sorta fuzzy vidcap of "The Lindafish"
Videograph by Rich Torkington in Mexico 2005

Dive Journal: We spend our surface interval on Iguana Beach and Linda is feeling only so-so. She perks up after a while and decides to do this second dive.

The site is located west and south of Islote near the shore, and consists of three huge rock “houses” with swimthroughs and lots of overhangs, along with quite a few other large adjacent rock formations. There are some beautiful orange encrusting sponges here, soft corals, and loads of fish.

I can hardly believe we are seeing so many green moray eels, but we come across another spot of SIX huge ones protruding out from a boulder, all in the same spot. Looks like a convention.

At another location, I find a pair of mating nudibranches, dark ones with orange speckles and bright blue features. We also check out a redlight goby.

Linda finds a very strange unknown fish with a unicorn-like top fin who buries in the sand. In fact, we are amazed that this fish can, at one moment, be hovering above the sand, and in an instant can divebomb and submerged completely into the sand bottom. Later in the boat, Ash and Daniella have no idea what kind of fish it is, so in jest we decide that probably no human being has ever seen one before us. We thus proclaim it the "Lindafish."

Note: the unknown fish fish is much later identified as a peacock or Pacific razorfish.