Thursday Photo ~ Purple Stuff

[Dee]

Have you got some purple stuff?

 

[SueMermaid]

Dee, I have tried and tried to describe those electric blue ?tunicates? to my non-diving friends, but just can't seem to, and I could never find a photo that accurately represents that impossible color, till now.
Most excellent. :mean:

 

[kelpmermaid]

This isn't the greatest shot, but it's the only one I have on the computer at the moment. It is purple hydrocoral, and it was taken at Farnsworth Banks off of the backside of Catalina, one of few places it grows this far south. "Deep" refers to the dive site, not the color...

 

[andrsn]

Found these guys camping out in a small cove on Grand Cayman(only clean-watered place I've really been)

 

[ihh]

Trigger Fish that has an almost purple marking


Hugh

 

[ihh]

OK let's try the attachment again

 

[Dee]

SueMermaid once bubbled...
Dee, I have tried and tried to describe those electric blue ?tunicates? to my non-diving friends, but just can't seem to, and I could never find a photo that accurately represents that impossible color, till now.
Most excellent. :mean:

I should have identified things....they aren't tunicates, they're sponges.

1 & 3. Azure Vase Sponge - although in #1 I have never seen them in that shape. They look like farytale slippers in that one!

2. Fairy Basslet

I'm still looking for Purple Tunicates!

 

[SueMermaid]

andrsn once bubbled...
Found these guys camping out in a small cove on Grand Cayman(only clean-watered place I've really been)

Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! <----girly squeal
I love squid. They are among my favorite creatures to spot. There's something so unbelievably cute about them. Were these the really teeny ones? :bkiss:

 

[andrsn]

actually, these guys/girls were about 8 inches long(~20cm). they're colors were actually totally fascinating. lots of luminescent shades.

Anderson

 

[Rooster]

purple