Mystery critters

[spatman]

anybody recognize the white spotted thing on the right?

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and what's this thing?

<a href="http://spatman.com/diving/gallery/octop ... G_5228.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://spatman.com/diving/gallery/octop ... G_5228.jpg" width="400" height="300"></a>
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<a href="http://spatman.com/diving/gallery/octop ... G_5229.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://spatman.com/diving/gallery/octop ... G_5229.jpg" width="400" height="300"></a>
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[Penopolypants]

The second blob looks like a single squid egg, usually found in bunches like this:

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/PenelopeStJ ... 7282"><img src="http://lh3.google.com/PenelopeStJohn/R4 ... s.jpg"></a>

The first pic is a little harder....it might be a white sea cucumber. Did it look anything like this in person? :

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/PenelopeStJ ... 8210"><img src="http://lh3.google.com/PenelopeStJohn/Rw ... y.jpg"></a>

[coachrenz]

The white thing in the first picture appears to be a Peppered Sea Cucumber Cucumaria piperata.

It is a close relative of the White Cucumber
Eupentacta quinquesem.

[spatman]

yep, it sure looked like a cucumber. now i know what a Peppered Sea Cucumber looks like. and squid eggs, too!

thanks!

[Pez7378]

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/PenelopeStJ ... 7282"><img src="http://lh3.google.com/PenelopeStJohn/R4 ... s.jpg"></a>

Notice the piercing white light in the background. Hey Joe, does your light look anything like that.......No I didn't think so! Haha.

Is it unusual to find a SINGLE squid egg like the one Matt saw? Did something eat all the others?

[Penopolypants]

Oh, you boys and your light saber lights!

Something must have eaten them. They're so exposed and hard to miss that I'm surprised that any make it at all.