Undervandsliv

Submarine life This page has been revised on the 10 June 1999

Under the surface of the sea is there a fantastic plentiful life to discover.

Cuttlefish med ekstreme farver.jpg (42900 bytes)
The cuttlefish is my favourite fish. It is so sweet and has nice sleepy eyes. At the same time it is fantastic because it changes colours of its skin to reflect the surroundings. And not only does it change its colours, it also changes the texture of the skin. One moment it is mono coloured and within seconds it can change to multicoloured and nubbly. On top of the features it also is able to let of itself like a rocket without first turning the body. No, it can scoot off in any direction. I think it is some kind of water jet principle.
Cuttlefish vinker.jpg (50297 bytes)

Cuttlefish.jpg (40909 bytes)

To cuttlefish fra oven.jpg (67400 bytes)

To meget soede cuttlefish.jpg (51737 bytes)

But there is much more too see:

For example the aggressive and biting Triggerfish:
Blaa triggerfish.jpg (38973 bytes)

A colourful fish is playing with three sea urchins. Sea urchins nasty creatures. Its spines are as sharp as a needle and goes through wetsuit and anything. They are most painful to get into the fingers or the thigh. To make it perfect the spines are barbed. Therefore it takes two to three months to get over that kind of incident (while this one looks like a pincushions).
Dragefisk og tre sopindsvin.jpg (30304 bytes)

The famous muraena is often seen:
Midten af en muraene.jpg (42549 bytes)

It is (normally) only dangerous when is it being teased. Then it grabs the arm of the diver and pulls backwards into its hide. It is strong as a orangutang. There is only two solutions to that problem: Cut of the head of the muraena, or cut your own arm.
Muraene fritliggende.jpg (38972 bytes)

A smaller zebra striped version:
Zebrastribet muraene.jpg (44014 bytes)

Shark of relatively often seen. There are only very few reports and histories of unpleasant incidents between human beings and shark. But nice to look at:
shark.jpg (13176 bytes)
(Photo: Signe Jakobsen)

Ugly, nasty and dangerous is the scorpion fish (or the similar stone fish). Camouflaged and with some very poisonous spines.
Stenfisk paa sten 1.jpg (34445 bytes)

Stenfisk paa sten 2.jpg (33604 bytes)

And in between the very poisonous sea snakes:
Ulaekker vandslange.jpg (32301 bytes)

Fortunately there is mostly just nice and colourful animals and vegetation to look at:

Fish in shoal:
Fisk i flok.jpg (23999 bytes)

"Gold fish":
Guldfisk.jpg (42947 bytes)

Another nice colourful fish:
Fisk med blaa kant 2.jpg (30829 bytes)

Sloerhalefisk.jpg (21421 bytes)

The Spy Fish (that is not the real name, but it should have been it with those spectacles):
Spionfisk.jpg (47916 bytes)

To troldfisk.jpg (39144 bytes)

Langusters to be eaten (but it is not allowed to catch them while diving):
Slide languster 2.jpg (27577 bytes)

Zebra stribet fisk med lang hestehale.jpg (10787 bytes)

Corals! Yes, of course there are corals here. Al sorts of. I don't know the names of them. But they are all, or better to say, they all start as living a plant and then later they fossilise.
Bloed koral vifter i vinden.jpg (41334 bytes)