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MaxBottomtime

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Yesterday I told Merry I wanted to find a Dendrodoris behrensi at the Underwater Arch. I had only seen one in more than twenty years. I found one within the first couple minutes of the dive. Today, Merry said she hoped there would be a Mola Mola cleaning station above the crane off Haggerty's. We dropped into a dozen of the funny looking fish. I think I want to find a gold-laden shipwreck next week.
The water in the top fourty feet was clear blue. Unfortunately, the wreck sits in fifty-five feet. It was murky, and seemed to be lacking the life we usually see there. No school of Rubberlips, no moray eels, no kelp... We had to look close to find any sign of life, but everywhere we looked, we found tiny animals. Shrimp, nudibranchs, worms, even a copepod fell from one of the Molas.


















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Superb shooting!
Thanks.
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I sure would like to see a mola mola outside of an aquarium, some day!
 
:crazyeye: Wow Phil! Exquisite Mola Portraits! Excellent detail and glorious luminosity. You out-did yourself. How close did they come in for those shots?
 
I had to be back about twenty feet to fit them in the frame. The strobe (singular) won't reach that far, so I had to do a lot of Photoshopping. One of my strobes crapped out yesterday. It's packed up and ready for a trip to Ikelite tomorrow.
One of the molas kept coming too close to get a shot. One time I was looking in my viewfinder when all of a sudden everything went white. I thought something was wrong with the camera, but when I pulled it away from my face, the pushy mola was two inches from the lens. I've never had one come so close to me before. He hung out with us for the entire 1:12 we were under water. I made a new friend today.
 
I've never had one come so close to me before. He hung out with us for the entire 1:12 we were under water. I made a new friend today.

What an incredible experience. You'll never forget that Mola
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