Archive for the ‘Marine Life’ Category

Watch as this little ‘devilfish’ makes his way safely back to the ocean after we released him from our prawn trap. I hope he considers himself lucky to live another day to eat more of our prawns!

We quite often catch small fish and octopus in our prawn traps as well as galatheid crabs - and prawns of course! I don’t often touch the octopus if they are larger than me… haha… that’s rare, but their arms seems to extend forever and they have very sharp beaks. Besides that their suction cups feel weird and are sometimes difficult to loosen, especially considering they have 8 legs and you never know where all the legs are at all times. The small octopus are cute though and I was glad to let this one go free in Pop’s bay!

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This video was shot in the waters of Porteau Cove in Howe Sound, British Columbia by a local diver freedivetom.

This male lingcod is guarding an egg mass in the crevice below him. He sees the diver and attacks.

Sean was free diving in the bay at Egmont and came up with a few treasures to show us.

Kaia was quite interested but wary of the ‘creatures’. I put elastic bands around the pincers to protect her tiny fingers and feet while we examined the Rock Crab closely.

Crabby Rock Crab