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| Originally Posted by sexydivebuddy what strange creatures! had no idea things like that existed!
if divers can swim through the big squirts, is there any risk that the critters can somehow "envelope" around kit accidently?
do you know what predates them? just curious! |
No danger of being swallowed u, the tissue of the beastie (a pyrosome) felt quite soft, I had to handle it very gently, I found it twisted up under the kelp, thought it was a piece of plastic at first.
Maybe turtles would eat them, they certainly eat other salps.
This site has some movie footage,
OceanFootage.com: Stock Footage - Video, Film, High Definition, Underwater Ocean Collection
NZ19_104 is a pyrosome, pretty similar to the one we saw.
EK02_108 & 106 are salps very similar, but larger than the ones we saw in the plankton bloom back in Nov-Dec.
EK02_102 is a comb jelly which is identical to one which has been very common this year.
For some reason, playing more than a few of these movies crashes Mozilla Firefox, although it doesnb't cause any problems getting back in.
Interesting thing is that in 15 years, on & off diving in Tas, this is the first year I've seen any of these.