Northwest Dive Club

anybody recognize the white spotted thing on the right?

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and what's this thing?

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

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

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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.

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

thanks!

Penopolypants wrote:
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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?

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.