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Old 06-07-04, 11:53 PM
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Hi Folks...

When I was in OZ, I saw some odd things on a night dive... Thought I may have been seeing things until my sis saw them as well in Lanzorote...

What are they??

Well, these things remind me of Alien tenticles in films... long thin green "tube" with a v shaped end of the same green tube... When you shine a light on them , they vanish ASAP....

I'm perpelexed... been diving a few years now, and not seen anything like it!

Please help!!!
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Oh yes, and these things seem to live under reef/rock... the scary thing is... I dont know what is on the end of the tenticle!!!!

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Was the "tube " actually hollow? Tropical (and temperate) Brittlestars often live in cracks in between and under rocks poking their "arms" out to feed, but their arms aren't hollow when viewed from outside
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Hi Steve..

The best way I can describe these things as a long solid green tube with 2 "fingers" on then end in a V shape. When I shone my torch on these things they retracted very quickly....

The only bit I saw was the "Arm" and "FIngers", the rest of whatever it was was under the reef/rocks, with the "arms" extending out over the sand....

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Hmm.. how'bout a drawing? What's the size of these tentacles? 3 foot? 3cm? If you ask me it could sound like some sort of snail...

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They were about 1 - 2 ft long, the best way I can think of them is some alien arm special effect from a film.... protruding out from under a rock!!!

diameter was about .5 of a cm. and it really hated torch light

only ever seen them in 1's
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When I was diving off Tenerife earlier in the year we saw a kind of tube worm. It has a long, flexable brown body and a mass of long bluey-green tentacles out of one end. I've got it on DVD somewhere at home; if this sounds like what you saw I'm happy to see if I can post a pic of it.
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HI Nick,

We could not see the body, only an appendage.... Looked like a green network cable with 2 green fingers on the end...... It was really vivid lime green....

Seemed to move very fast when exposed to light.....

I dont think it was a tube worm but I'm not sure....

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If I see any of these again, Ill get a picture..

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