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No boat needed- just walk in straight from the beach at Hapimag Sea Garden Resort, and this is whatโs waiting a few meters out!
Nudibranchs, moray eels, octopus an more, all living right off our shore this season.
And this isnโt even all of it. Every dive turns up something new.
๐Erman Dive Center, @hapimagseagardenhotel @hapimagbodrum
All pictures are taken from an actual beach dive from our resort, original and owned by Erman Dive Center.
Every nudibranch is a hermaphrodite, carrying both male and female organs at once. It has no shell as an adult, and its bold color pattern actually comes from its diet- it absorbs pigments from what it eats!
When threatened, it can gulp water and balloon to several times its normal size in seconds- its main defense since itโs a slow, clumsy swimmer otherwise!
The feathery โcrownโ is both its gills and its dinner plate, filtering plankton straight out of the water. If a fish nips it off, the worm can simply regrow a new one!
Starts life as a female and later changes into a male. Theyโre extremely loyal to one rock or cave for years, and divers who return to the same site often!
Has three hearts and blue-tinted blood! It can shift color and pattern almost instantly using skin cells called chromatophores, both to hide and to โtalkโ to other squid.
Has famously bad eyesight and hunts mostly by smell. The constant mouth-opening is mistaken for aggression is just how it breathes- pumping water over its gills.
Lives inside a self-made tube buried in the sand and can vanish into it in a split second if disturbed. Itโs an animal, not a plant, despite the name- a close relative of coral and jellyfish!
They have three hearts and blue, copper-based blood. It can solve puzzles and change both color and skin texture in under a second- yet typically lives only 1-2 years.
Born with one eye on each side like a normal fish, then one eye actually migrates across the head during early development so both end up on the same side, letting it lie flat on the seabed!
Its nearly transparent body is pure camouflage against predators, and like all shrimp it has to molt its entire exoskeleton to grow, leaving it briefly soft and vulnerabl
Nudibranchs, moray eels, octopus an more, all living right off our shore this season.
And this isnโt even all of it. Every dive turns up something new.
๐Erman Dive Center, @hapimagseagardenhotel @hapimagbodrum
All pictures are taken from an actual beach dive from our resort, original and owned by Erman Dive Center.
Every nudibranch is a hermaphrodite, carrying both male and female organs at once. It has no shell as an adult, and its bold color pattern actually comes from its diet- it absorbs pigments from what it eats!
When threatened, it can gulp water and balloon to several times its normal size in seconds- its main defense since itโs a slow, clumsy swimmer otherwise!
The feathery โcrownโ is both its gills and its dinner plate, filtering plankton straight out of the water. If a fish nips it off, the worm can simply regrow a new one!
Starts life as a female and later changes into a male. Theyโre extremely loyal to one rock or cave for years, and divers who return to the same site often!
Has three hearts and blue-tinted blood! It can shift color and pattern almost instantly using skin cells called chromatophores, both to hide and to โtalkโ to other squid.
Has famously bad eyesight and hunts mostly by smell. The constant mouth-opening is mistaken for aggression is just how it breathes- pumping water over its gills.
Lives inside a self-made tube buried in the sand and can vanish into it in a split second if disturbed. Itโs an animal, not a plant, despite the name- a close relative of coral and jellyfish!
They have three hearts and blue, copper-based blood. It can solve puzzles and change both color and skin texture in under a second- yet typically lives only 1-2 years.
Born with one eye on each side like a normal fish, then one eye actually migrates across the head during early development so both end up on the same side, letting it lie flat on the seabed!
Its nearly transparent body is pure camouflage against predators, and like all shrimp it has to molt its entire exoskeleton to grow, leaving it briefly soft and vulnerabl
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