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ight diving can be done from boat or through many experiments. Yet still, their long and hard to discover all of the fasci-
N shore. Popular night dive sites include uncanny ability to change millions of cell nating creatures duirng a night dive.
wreck dives due primarily to all of the fas- formations in both color and texture eludes
cinating creatures that inhabit these sites scientists to this day. ight Dive Fish - Most species of fish
at night. N in sleep at night, allowing divers to
els are active at night and sea eels that approach them much closer than during
s the sun settles into the sea the reef E typically sleep and dwell in caves during the day. One of the more fascinatingly
A inhabitants undergo a complete meta- the day can be seen free swimming at night fish you will see on your night dive is the
morphosis, well beyond the obvious docile as they prey on unsuspecting fish lying in Parrot Fish. Parrot fish can be difficult to
appearances of many usually active fish. vulnerable dormant states. There are sev- approach during the day. At night you will
By the time the sun has completely set, the eral species of eels, with the Green Moray find Parrot Fish sleeping comfortably on
rerefs will have shifted into full nocturnal eel being the most common, during the day the bottom and easy to photograph.
mode, with changes literally as different as and at night.
day and night. Octopi swim freely at night asket stars are among the many enig-
as many of their predators sleep, creating udibranch are possibly the most B matic creatures inhabiting the sea. An
vivid imagery of a cornucopia of colors as N fascinating of all night creatures to echinoderm - most closely related to Brittle
their chameleon-like traits enable them inhabit the Night; tiny and insect-like in Stars in that their 5 primary arms branch
to change not only color but texture. Stop appearance, nudibranch come in every off a central disc and exchange gas via a
and gaze as they perform magically before imaginable shape and color. From caterpil- water vascular network. They live for up to
your eyes, seemingly defying physical laws lar like crawlers to brilliant multi colored 35 years and reach an extended diameter of
as they change from one type of organism globs. Nudibranch will be unquestionably 1-2 feet.
into something appearing completely dif- one of the more fascinating encounters
ferent. An octopus’ intelligence is claimed you will experience on any night dive. Even
to be very close to that of a dolphin—or a highly trained divemasters and professional
chimpanzee, which has been demonstrated underwater photographers have to search