Post-pelagic ornate ghost pipefish
This ghost pipefish was a first to me, as I have never seen one in post-larval stage (we thought at first it was a different specie, until I looked for more information). You can see it still being fully transparent. It was a mission just to take a picture of it as it was driving me nuts by swimming around me, up and down. I stayed for more than 15 minutes doing what Mike called on DD imitation of the Tasmanian Devil” trying to have a side shot with tail fully expanded. Mission accomplished. 
Another interesting phase was finishing the dive at the Police Pier. I went their to look for strange critters and finish my last bit of air, I bumped into a camouflaged painted frogfish with a massive belly (pregnant ?) and then realized that the pole was covered with tiny frogfishes about the size of a thumb.
#44: Location: Nudi Retreat, SI: 12h13min, Max. Depth: 21.4m, Time: 74min
#45: Location: Hairball 1, SI: 1h34min, Max. Depth: 14.3m, Time: 90min
#46: Location: Police Pier, SI: 1h35min, Max. Depth: 14.0m, Time: 113min
#47: Location: ?, SI: 1h36min, Max. Depth: 8.9m, Time: 42min
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Nice job… Is it next year yet?
Comment by Bob Whorton — October 17, 2004 @ 6:33 pm