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Endless Ocean Luminous, Nintendo Switch

i think this game would make for excellent ambience videos, or animated screensavers... the faster pace of multiplayer dives sometimes makes me forget to stop and.

well i can't smell in scuba gear. but yk

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A juvenile African pompano, or threadfin trevally, swims through the Verde Island Passage, a major shipping lane in the Philippines. Its streaming filaments resemble the tentacles of a jellyfish—a possible advantage for evading predators that patrol the night sea.

PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID DOUBILET AND JENNIFER HAYES

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Have you ever drawn a Juvenile African Pompano? They have these goofy, often unibrow faces paired with long, majestic streamer-like fins. They are perfect.

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Animal Crossing Fish - Explained #205

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The incredible diversity of body shapes and features young, larval fish possess is astounding. In many species, as is the case for today’s threadfin trevally, the juveniles sport long fin rays, head spines, or even appendages that make them look like a floating piece of seaweed in order to avoid becoming lunch. I mean, being a small fish anywhere is generally a tough lifestyle, so you do your best to not look like a small fish.

The threadfin trevally appeared in Pocket Camp for the Threadfin Trevally Goal event in November 2021, and hasn’t returned since. That’s a shame, because the icon for this species in the game is gorgeous and oh so accurate. Unfortunately, the timing isn’t? Usually juvenile threadfin start becoming more numerous in the spring, but, yeah, we’ve already established ACPC gives less of a damn about seasonality than ACNH.

The threadfin trevally is also more commonly known as the African Pompano (Alectis ciliaris). It is a member of the Carangidae family, the jacks, trevally, runners, and their fast af friends. These fish are laterally compressed, which means they are really thin as if squished into a pancake on either side. Together with powerful muscles and deeply forked tail fins allows these active predators to chase down their prey. Many of them are also considered incredible sportfish that would give any angler a run for their money. Although called a trevally, it does not belong in the same Genus as the Giant Trevally we covered a long time ago, nor is it a true pompano despite being called one. Heh, names, amiright? Nevertheless, it’s a tropical marine fish found around the world in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.

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Now, like I alluded to at the beginning of the entry, the form of the African Pompano ACPC went with is actually the small juvenile form. As the fish grows, its body and face get longer and it eventually loses those beautiful long fins. It’s been proposed that the juvenile’s long fins look very much like jelly tentacles, and that the form may be attempting to mimic jellies in order to avoid being prey. Seriously, go look up juvenile African Pompanos, their fins are mesmerizing! The ones pictured here are already losing some length on those fins - in smaller individuals, their fins can be almost ten times the length of their actual body.

They also live in a totally different biome than adults. Juveniles of this species are open ocean drifters, while adults settle onto reefs and shallow coastal waters. Honestly, you’d think the juveniles and adults were two different species!

And there you have it! Fascinating stuff, no?

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A young African Pompano. Source

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NSP:089 Sam Blount Front Line Freediving | Spearfishing First Aid

Interview with Sam Blount from Frontline Freediving

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Sam Blount from Frontline freedivingin Wilmington, North Carolina joins us to share some very practical information for all spearos. Specifically we take a look at the 4 most serious types of injuries and accidents that can happen…

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