Dive 2 of Trip2: Eagle Ray and Mantis Shrimp Making a Kill

[deco_martini]

GoPro Housing flooded at the start of the dive of of course....

Seen at Oil Slick Leap South.

The eagle ray's tail was so long, it was practically a procession.



I meant trip6 (in the title) .... I must have still been stoked from seeing a mantis shrimp actually make a kill up close.

 

[parachute]

That's great!...

Was the mantis shrimp a "spearer" or a "smasher"? I didn't know they can be found in the Caribbean. I saw one on the Great Barrier Reef earlier this year and was fascinated by this unique creature.

Some edutainment:

True Facts About The Mantis Shrimp - YouTube

 

[tsuyoshi]

Wow! Can someone post some more photos?

My guide on the last trip found one on a top of a reef which had a head almost as big as my palm. Its burrowing hole could fit my fist. Threw a rock in it & it throws it out. This video is making me glad not being to curious w it. Smaller ones we saw usually run like hell.