Red Sea - Echinoderms

Here are some pictures of starfish, sea urchins and sea cucumbers that you might meet in the Red Sea.

Starfish and Feather Stars

Starfish and feather stars can be found if you look closely enough.

Sea Urchins

Lots of Blue-black sea urchins can be seen in the Red Sea but you have to look harder for other types of urchin. in fact many of which only come into the open at night to feed. Many of these pictures were taken at night using flash photography.

Sea Cucumbers

The following pictures are of Sea Cucumbers. These are quite common and unremarkable. That is except if they get upset. If this happens they tend to spew their sticky toxic guts out of their bottoms!

June 2011

Diving continues, the plankton bloom has come and now looks like it may be going. Dived the Far Mulberry a few times with vis down to 1m in places. This year we are seeing a lot more Dogfish / Catshark, Star fish and Nudibranch's than I can ever remember.

Four of us divded under Selsey lifeboat station last night. Taking in the old lifeboat station as well as the new one, eighty minutes of fun, Cuttlefish, Greater Pipefish, Nudibranchs and Spider Crabs.

A new website is crawling into existance for our diving centre project - see the links section below.

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