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Perhaps my most memorable image that has been transformed from grey and cloudy surroundings into a multi-colored creation is this diatom - genus Entomoneis - titled Cretaceous Raptor.This image required a whole week of developing the color pattern and color gradations that resulted in the final product. It was quite exhausting in the creation, but a rewarding result.
The 5.5m carcass - which needed 16 people to bring it ashore - will be buried in sand before it is reconstructed for display.
Video: Snorkeller Finds Monster 'Serpent'
A marine biologist has made
the discovery of a lifetime - the five-metre-long [18 ft. approx.] silvery carcass of
the creature belived to be the origin of sea serpent legends.
Jasmine Santana of the Catalina Island Marine Institute (CIMI) was
snorkelling with colleagues in Toyon Bay, southern California when she
spotted something shimmering in the water.
She dragged the eel-like beast by the tail for more than 20m, others waded in to the sea and helped her bring it to shore.
After taking a closer look she discovered it was an oarfish, which can grow up to 15m.
"Jasmine Santana was shocked to see (a) half-dollar sized eye staring
at her from the sandy bottom," the institute said in a statement.
"Her first reaction was to approach with caution, until she realised that it was dead."
Oarfish are deep-water pelagic fish and the longest bony fish in the world, according to CIMI.
Because oarfish dive more than 3,000 feet (914 metres) deep, sightings
of the creatures are rare and they are largely unstudied.
"We've never seen a fish this big," said Mark Waddington, senior captain of the Tole Mour, CIMI's sail training ship.
"The last oarfish we saw was three feet long."
Tissue samples and video footage were sent to be studied by biologists at the University of California in Santa Barbara.
It will be buried in the sand until it decomposes and then its skeleton will be reconstructed for display.
The fish apparently died of natural causes.
As you can see, an Oyster Festival can be the perfect platform for a variety of subjects involving the Indian River Lagoon Speakers Series including a presentation by Dr. Hargraves regarding 'Red Tides', utilizing about ten of our colorised images to illustrate his discussion at the Ft. Pierce Yacht Club waterfront.
At the Smithsonian Marine Station in Fort Pierce, FL, a community
open house was recently held which in part featured over a dozen
colorized scanning electron micrographs originally taken by Dr. Paul
Hargraves of the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute. The open house
was attended by nearly 600 persons, and the dialog and photos stimulated
much interest about the microscopic life in Florida coastal waters.
Dr. Hargraves is in the foreground describing various points to visitors at the open house. Some of the colorized SEM images can be seen in the background.
