Linda, Janel & John (buddies)

N2 The Blue Dive Shop
St. Croix USVI
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Amazing how these tube sponges can grow off the criss-crossed cables here. Videocap by Rich Torkington in the USVIs 2006

Dive Journal: The second dive today is again a shallower reef dive, following a slope downward just west from the mooring ball. There is plenty of macro-photography opportunity here and I enjoy this kind of dive.

The site is interesting due to its hundreds of criss-crossed cables laid in a grid across the reef floor, formally used by the Navy for submarine tracking. It is amazing to see huge purple tube sponges sprouting from many of these cables.

I get a bunch of decent video, including a young trunkfish. I then find what I think is a juvenile jackknife fish. Later I verify this – the juvenile jackknife fish has a black band down between its eyes, while the juvenile spotted drum has a black spot.

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