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Caption: MUCK DIVING Lembeh
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Caption: Early of October 2020, we dived at Lembeh, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. It’s one of the best spot for muck diving in the world. What is muck diving? It gets its name from the sediment that lies at the bottom of many dive sites - a frequently muddy or "mucky" environment. DIVING NOTE
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Caption: Before this we only knew Lembeh from so many popular YouTube videos that were made by worldwide scientists and professional underwater photographers.
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Caption: Muck diving is different with macro diving. Yes, both of it means to dive for small sea creatures. If we are peering in a clear water & and white sandy floor, that’s not muck diving.
When we are scouring the dark, often silty and detritus-strewn sea bed, and coming across all manner of incredible critters appearing against the dark background, we are muck diving.
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Caption: This is the way muck diving works. We must use the eagle eyes to identify tiny sea creatures. Tiny but unique, like this nudibranch.
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Caption: Descent into
a different world PADI wrote that diving in Lembeh is a very different diving experience.
As you descend into the waters of the Lembeh Strait, you’ll find yourself submerged in another world; a world of muck!
Muck diving is different to diving on coral reefs, but it’s certainly no less exciting.
Spotting rare and unusual muck-dwelling critters is just part of the fun.
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Caption: Do you want to dance with the Magnificent Anemone Shrimp? 😁
It’s a species of cleaner shrimp common to the Western Pacific Ocean at depths of 3–29 metres.
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Caption: Wild & Weird PADI wrote that the Lembeh Strait is home to some of the weirdest and most unusual marine life on the planet.
In Lembeh you’ll meet a plethora of new species – some of them stunning, like the mandarinfish, and others are just downright ugly, like the sand dwelling stargazers.
For those interested in night diving, you’re in luck – some of the strangest critters come out of hiding when the sun goes down.
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Caption: Unique ELECTRIC CLAM or DISCO CLAM. Is the electric clam really electric? Lindsey Dougherty, a researcher from the University of California Berkeley, studied the “Electric Clam” of Lembeh.
It turns out that the lights are not from bioluminescence, but instead are only from reflection of sunlight in the ocean. The clams have a highly reflective tissue on the very outer edge of their mantle that is exposed and then hidden very quickly, so the change back and forth from the white reflective tissue to the red tissue creates the appearance of flashing.
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Caption: This is “sexy shrimp” or “sexy pistol shrimp”🤭.
It is named for its unusual body movement. When excited it stretches its tail up and waves it, as if trying to show off, hence the name sexy come 🤪
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Caption: Cleaner shrimp. Do you want to clean your teeth? Ask this cleaner shrimp to do it 😁.
Believe it or not divers say that if we open our mouth near this shrimp, they will clean our teeth. Dare to do it? 😬
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Caption: Btw this diving trip is part of our exams to be certified by PADI as advance openwater divers. And Thanks God we passed it 👌😁
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Caption: Proudly to share this Banggai Cardinalfish. It’s an endemic fish species of Indonesia (A fish species is considered endemic to a location if that is the only place it occurs naturally).
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Caption: Even the starfish
looks unique
in Lembeh 😍
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Caption: Squid.....!
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Caption: Now it’s time to say goodbye. See you again 😉
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Caption: Photo by Sunu fam
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