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Clavelina picta
Zooids up to 2 cm, transparent and often shaded with white, red or purple. Siphons rims and internal body parts are typically carmine to purple, although there may be some variations. The zooids are jointed at their bases through stolons.
Inhabit reefs and walls. Grow in clusters ranging from a few to many individuals. Often attached to gorgonians, black corals and sponges. Down to 35 m. Common to occasional in Florida, Bahamas and Caribbean.
Spotted on Sep 14, 2011
Submitted on Oct 7, 2011
10 Comments
Thnaks to you for making the mission, is very nice!
Thanks for adding this spotting to the mission! is really amazing
Nice experience to share must be useful to know and keep in mind for aspirant dive photographers... Thanks Marta...!!
And Ashish, I must say that through all my night dive in Isla Mujeres I felt very sea sick because I forgot to take my motion sickness pill and on top of that we forgot to add the light diffusser to the camera case..so is a miracle that I could yet make a few decent shots that night...! Then the next day I drowned my camera by not locking properly the camera case and I noticed in the middle of a descent to a very pretty wreck full of schools of fishes..so it was definitely not the best of my photo-dive trips..But I´ve got to snorkel with whale sharks so that made it all worthwhile at the end ;-)
Hmm.. Thanks a lot Marta for sharing description of Diving efforts to take while shooting Organism at below Sea level... Great thing to achieve...!!
Thanks, both. Respect Ashishs´question: it depends on the place, the visibility, how attentive you are to the surroundings and many other factors. just the same as how many spottings can you make while walking on a prairy any other day :-)
I agree with Eric that different things can be spotted in the same location on different dives too. If you really pay attention you can see hundreds of things in a single dive, but is difficult to photograph them all. Also, in most dives some divers dislike the photographer diver because this person always stays behind focusing on things to make pictures off. this forces the photographer not to stop too much so not to loose the rest of the group. I like it best when is only me, my buddy and the dive master and one or two other more patient people. Big groups are not photographer friendly and then if you focus on following them you loose a lot of focus on the environment and the many things you can spot..
Thanks Eric for sharing... :)
Nice photo btw Martha :-)
A lot Ashish hehe. There are so many interesting creatures underwater. And each dive, even if on the same location, is different. Just look at my spottings - most are in batches taken on the same day. And if you are lucky you can spot an octopus and some squid on the same dive just like I did :-)
I wonder how much spottings you and many others marine spotters do in single dive...