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Congratulations Jerry Pucelik on being named Photographer of the Week
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Jerry Pucelik
from Las Cruces, N.M.
Age: 69
Years Diving: 31
Certification: NAUI |
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Dive Site: Lembeh Strait
Location: Sulawesi, Indonesia
Marine Life ID: Nudibranch, Ceratosoma trilobatum
Camera: Nikon F4s in Aquatica housing and 60mm micro lens
Film: Kodak Gold 100
Description: What a contrast to see one of these showoffs on a sandy sea bottom. |
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Dive Site: Angels Window, Lembeh Strait
Location: Sulawesi, Indonesia
Marine Life ID: Ornate ghost pipefish, Solenostomus paradoxus
Camera: Nikon F4s in Aquatica housing and 60mm micro lens
Film: Kodak Gold 100
Description: A person could spend a whole dive trying to get these beauties to pose just right. |
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Dive Site: Lembeh Strait
Location: Sulawesi, Indonesia
Marine Life ID: Mandarinfish, Synchiropus splendidus
Camera: Nikon F4s in Aquatica housing and 60mm micro lens
Film: Kodak Gold 100
Description: At 20 meters lying still in relatively cold water waiting for these two to get together and rise up is chilling, but very much worth it. |
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Dive Site: Balicasag Island
Location: Philippines
Marine Life ID: Nudibranch, Notodoris minor
Camera: Nikon F4s in Aquatica housing and 60mm micro lens
Film: Kodak Gold 100
Description: These are relatively large nudibranchs (100mm), but real beauties and a Notodoris serenae was close by. |
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Dive Site: Lembeh Strait
Location: Sulawesi, Indonesia
Marine Life ID: Periclemenes imperator shrimp on a Risbecia tryoni nudibranch
Camera: Nikon F4s in Aquatica housing and 60mm micro lens
Film: Kodak elite chrome EB100
Description: These nudibranchs tend to travel in pairs and the shrimp was the hitchhiker. |
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Dive Site: Lembeh Strait
Location: Sulawesi, Indonesia
Marine Life ID: Nudibranch, Phyllodesmium longicirrum
Camera: Nikon F4s in Aquatica housing and 60mm micro lens
Film: Kodak Gold 100
Description: This solar-powered nudibranch ingests zooxanthellae and through photosynthesis produces nutrients for itself. |
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Dive Site: Lembeh Strait
Location: Sulawesi, Indonesia
Marine Life ID: Pygmy seahorses, Hippocampus bargibanti
Camera: Nikon F4s in Aquatica housing and 60mm micro lens
Film: Kodak Gold 100
Description: Trying to find and get one of these little creatures is hard enough, but two is a challenge. |
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Dive Site: Nudi Falls, Lembeh Strait
Location: Sulawesi, Indonesia
Marine Life ID: Rhynopias eschmeyeri
Camera: Nikon F4s in Aquatica housing and 60mm micro lens
Film: Kodak Gold 100
Description: These are hard to find in the coral-algae rubble, but make great photos if the current is not too strong. |
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