Amazing how these tube sponges can grow off the criss-crossed cables here.
Videocap by Rich Torkington in the USVIs 2006  |
The site is interesting due to its hundreds of criss-crossed cables laid in a grid across the reef floor, formally used by the Navy for submarine tracking. It is amazing to see huge purple tube sponges sprouting from many of these cables.
I get a bunch of decent video, including a young trunkfish. I then find what I think is a juvenile jackknife fish. Later I verify this – the juvenile jackknife fish has a black band down between its eyes, while the juvenile spotted drum has a black spot.
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Dive
Info:
Dive
Info:
Fins:
Mares Avanti Quattro
Mares Avanti Quattro
Computer:
U S Divers Matrix
U S Divers Matrix
Tank:
80 ft3 Aluminum
80 ft3 Aluminum
BCD:
SeaQuest Spectrum 4
SeaQuest Spectrum 4
Dive Type:
Boat
Boat
Body of Water:
Caribbean
Caribbean
Mask:
U S Divers
U S Divers
Protection:
3mm shorty
3mm shorty
Regulator:
SeaQuest
Spectrum XR2
plus Oceanic
Slimline octopus
SeaQuest
Spectrum XR2
plus Oceanic
Slimline octopus
Weight:
8 lb
8 lb
Water Type:
Salt
Salt
Video Equipment:
Sony DCR-TRV227 digital handycam in Top Dawg housing
Sony DCR-TRV227 digital handycam in Top Dawg housing