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The nettle blooms nearshore have gotten a lot less frequent in the last decade. It used to be they were there every summer, but it’s been very hit and miss since. The shots in this video are mostly from 2017-2018 and we hadn’t had a good bloom in a couple years prior to that. Usually mid to late summer bring them in, and the last few years that has been mainly moons and egg yolks. Winter has a different cohort of the jellies, more salps and siphonophores and ctenophores generally.

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Thanks for tuning in! Jellies are my favorite thing to dive with out there, just truly otherworldly

@underwaterpat they've been my favorite since I was a child, how lucky to have seen them in the wild! Indeed they are otherworldly treasures of the ocean! I'll have to subscribe for more!

They're stealthy little buddies! I feel like the bad viz makes them more bold to venture out

"Fluke, I am your wader!" I have never seen a great white on a scuba dive in my 15 years doing it-they just don't seem to like the bubbles/sounds we make. If you were to see one, there's not much to do except go the bottom and then head to shore. It's freeing in that way because why worry about the shark if there's nothing you can really do. Meanwhile the ocean itself is the most dangerous thing about the diving, always good to show a healthy respect for the sea!

Picking up the Pandalus change!

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Absolutely, it's really missing out on a lot of subtidal observations and its amazing how responsive the community is-I hope it catches on with the bubble blowers!

So fun to be surrounded like that

Thanks Eric!

And here I though it was just the Vine!

I dived there 2 days later. Couldn’t believe how stinky the gear got!

Gnarly right?! And there's the anchovy "cheeze" once they get bloated 🤢

Great meeting you this weekend!!

Sunfish are my favorites, and between the five types-Mola mola "common", Mola tecta "hoodwinker", Mola alexandrini "bumphead", Masturus lanceloatus "sharptail" and Ranzania levis "slender" sunfishes-they are found all over the world from temperate to tropical waters. We have both Mola mola nd Mola tecta here in Monterey Bay, they come in every year as juveniles and adults to feed on jellies!

Heya! I am in Monterey, hit me up on DM @underwaterpat on Instagram

Right on thanks for watching!

“Force naps on yourself is sooo funny” I use it to meditate! First, I wind down by staring at the swaying kelp and colors and light peeking through..then I close my eyes and zone out to the scuba bubbles and breath sound! This is a treat!

thanks! should be able to get it in the next couple weeks

For the camera: Sony a1 with the nautical wwlb lens, a Sola 15k video light and two Backscatter hybrid flashes

Thanks B! The goal for me would eventually be to upload *all* the sightings from a dive, because we need that background “baseline” info just as much as the outlier stuff. I often have my exciting ones up first because that feels so gamified but I’m trying to get better at taking the time to upload all the stuff i can recognize or that could realistically be recognized later… You never know what’ll be the important to someone else!

Thanks for watching!!

An inkredible moment indeed 🐙❤️❤️❤️

It was huge!! From the narcosis/excitement it was hard to gauge exactly how big but it reminded me of some of the bigger ones at the Aquarium, which were like 60lbs and over 12 feet across, but hard to know… Yes off Big Sur the water was like 47-48 that year with the upwelling, rough in my old wetsuit ahah

Once you start you can’t stop, it ain’t over easy

Right on! Yes people have still been seeing them recently on the Metridium Field pipe, same as back when I filmed this.

Hey right on thanks so much for watching!!

why you strolling with the fish ain't you tired grazing like you're bored watch for that sea otterrrrrrrrrrrr

Oh we're about to make some waves, the tide is coming!

Thanks for watching Alyssia!!