Blackwater Dive with Aquatic Life Divers - Kona, Hawaii - March 13, 2020

For this dive, I hopped on the boat with Aquatic Life Divers to go offshore and witness the world's largest migration that happens every night! This vertical diurnal migration brings up critters from the deep, dark sea right to the surface within reach. It was a very hypnotizing and feels like you're in another world! A must-do in Kona!

[@sofisalaverri]

Amazing!

[@Luisgarcia-be5ub]

Is that a spider?

[@shoredivingalongthekonacoa6450]

The spider-looking creature is a lobster in its larval stage.

[@poppyallgood6918]

Friggin COOL!!

[@poppyallgood6918]

REALLY???

[@jonathanbarnes3213]

What is the creature at 3:54 and 4:42?

[@shoredivingalongthekonacoa6450]

At 3:54 it’s a pelagic seahorse (Hippocampus fisheri) and at 4:42 it’s a winged box jelly with a larval fish that gets captured by a tentacle.

[@jonathanbarnes3213]

@@shoredivingalongthekonacoa6450 Thank you! The creature between 3:54-4:04 though...a box jellyfish also?

[@NGC-nx7nl]

@@jonathanbarnes3213 That is a calycophorae siphonophore from the group Diphyinae. There isn't a box jellyfish.

[@jonathanbarnes3213]

@@NGC-nx7nl thanks. from other videos I had surmised it was a “net caster.” Same thing?

[@NGC-nx7nl]

@@jonathanbarnes3213 Oh, I see that they were referencing a different video, yeah it is the same as those ones :)