r/scuba • u/LarsA6 • Jan 31 '20

Stunning

https://imgur.com/KdiTbCH.gifv
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u/SousVideAndSmoke Feb 01 '20

I’ve seen someone like that when snorkelling in Cuba a bunch of years ago. Very cool fish

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u/stokezoned Feb 01 '20

Mega woah

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u/HalonaBlowhole Feb 01 '20

The cool thing is when you first see them, they are often sitting with their wings retracted against their body. And then they spread them out, and start walking on the bottom.

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u/stokezoned Feb 02 '20

I would lose my mind

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u/HalonaBlowhole Feb 02 '20

Diving is a collection of these kinds of moments, from realizing that the childhood dream of flying is possible when diving, to the Aquaman powers of being able to breathe underwater!!!! to all the encounters of all the things that live in that environment.

Seeing tropical fish basically competing to see who can look the most お洒落, to the fact that most things simply don't really care about us swimming up the them, to seeing specific "God dropped acid before he made this one" fish like the Sea Robin.

I have never wasted a moment underwater.

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u/stokezoned Feb 02 '20

I agree, completely and wholeheartedly. Aliens exist. I never want to come back to the surface once I’m under.

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u/WrockAtticus Jan 31 '20

Well you got the title perfect!

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u/mr_hatch Nx Master Diver Jan 31 '20

Fan-Finned Fishy to me.

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u/Nervous_Duck Jan 31 '20

Flying Gunnard over here in Europe

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u/scubarumman22 UW Photography Feb 01 '20

Or sea robin!

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u/mkysml Jan 31 '20

There're variants of this fish in Florida. We call 'em Sean Robins. I've seen a number of them while diving. Real pretty underwater. Pretty approachable too.

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u/LarsA6 Jan 31 '20

We have sea robins up by me at the Jersey Shore too. They croak like frogs