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| Wildlife & Ecology Issues: Discuss A Caribbean mystery in the General Diving Forums forums: Back in May I had the good fortune to find my self diving of the coast of Cuba (Maria La ... |
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13-09-07, 10:20 AM
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 A Caribbean mystery Back in May I had the good fortune to find my self diving of the coast of Cuba (Maria La Gorda) A couple of times I thought that I saw near transparent threads about 10 cm long, not unlike threads of spider silk, floating along in the 5-15 metre depth range. Unfortunately they were so ‘barely there’ that each time I tried to draw my Buddies attention to it (what ever ‘it’ was) confusion ensued as they looked for an apparently invisible ‘something?’ Does any one know what I might have seen? Chains of plankton? Chunks of dismembered jelly fish?? A good dose of Googleing has left me none the wiser.      |
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13-09-07, 10:53 AM
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13-09-07, 11:23 AM
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| YumYum! - Thanks for that |
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13-09-07, 12:02 PM
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| I know what you mean in the sense that if you look closely in the water you see some weird unicellular stuff floating around and try explaining that to anyone else! Two weeks ago I was stung by a floating jellyfish sting, I know there were no jellyfish and I go stung on the lip. Talking about the jellyfish snot this summer I thought it was snowing only to look up and seeing toilet paper flaoting down from a dive boat. Worst still was the brown mucus cloud. ohhh it's lunchtime now.....
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22-09-07, 07:58 PM
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| It sounds as though it may have been a siphonophore. The best known species is the Portuguese man 'o war but they vary enormously in appearance. We have them here in Scandinavia and I suspect they also exist in UK waters. Ours are long, thin, fragile threads - only a couple of millimetres wide and up to 2-3 metres long. In warm tropical waters they can be up to 40 metres long. Siphonophora - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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