May 27, 2023
Jellyfish of Puget Sound
seen from Czechia
seen from Germany
seen from Saudi Arabia
seen from Malaysia
seen from Malaysia
seen from Germany
seen from United Kingdom
seen from Germany
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seen from United States
seen from Saudi Arabia
seen from Saudi Arabia
seen from Germany
seen from Bulgaria
seen from United States
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seen from Kuwait
seen from United States
Jellyfish of Puget Sound
Shellfies with a handsome rock sole (Lepidopsetta bilineata) and a red rock crab (Cancer productus)
Local sixgill startled by speedy squalus suckleyi
Graceful Crab (Metacarcinus gracilis)
Red Rock Crab (Cancer productus)
So, in a previous tag response on the diver resisting the urge to pet the sixgill shark, I pointed out that we don’t know how a bluntnose sixgill shark, Hexanchus griseus (Bonaterre, 1788), would respond to human touch outside of duress. Well. . . as of today, that’s no longer the case. Here’s a video from John Sanders’ channel; just uploaded. We can see the shark settled to the floor, as it did in the GIF. It may even be the same shark. She appears unbothered by the touch, and isn’t fighting and isn’t trying to get away. In this video, we have two perspectives of the same event. So, it appears that this specific H. griseus doesn’t mind attention from humans. Reminder that every shark has a different personality, and we need more evidence before we can say that H. griseus is okay with touch and attention like this.
Phoca vitulina
1) A mother and her pup.
2) A warm hug between mates.
Crescent Gunnel