Tag: peril strait

Basket Stars Stomping All Over Poor Old Gorgonian Coral

Post author By Nautilus Staff
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Post date 2008-06-25

By Nautilus Staff on June 25th, 2008 in Archive

Just to make things more interesting, vast numbers of basket stars are all over the place, waving their tentacles around and clambering all over the poor old Gorgonian coral trying to get “first dib’s” on inbound nutrients. I kind of feel sorry for the coral!

Tags Alaska, baranoff island, basket stars, coral, gorgonian coral, grizzly bears, peril strait, sergius narrows

Swimming Scallops and Grizzly Bears

Post author By Nautilus Staff
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Post date 2008-06-23

By Nautilus Staff on June 23rd, 2008 in Archive

Best of all, we discovered thousands and thousands of swimming scallops on the bottom. Our scuba divers took great amusement in watching the pink and spiny scallops lift off the seabed and swim away as soon as the bivalve detected the presence of the divers.