Thread: Daily Fish

Originally Posted by Mendip

And it was dead coral, in case my conservationist credentials are under suspicion.

Even dead coral is of value to the underwater ecosystem.

^ You're completely correct of course.

This reminds me of an event many years ago when, while walking the dog, I collected a mossy log from King's Wood on the Mendips and brought it down off the hills for my mum's bog garden, as a present for her Christmas. My ecologist cousin had a right go at me, saying that these mossy logs provide a great ecosystem for all manner of creepy crawlies and bugs, and I should have left it in King's Wood, blah de blah, etc.

There are bloody loads of mossy logs up there.

As also, there are bloody loads of pieces of dead coral on the ocean floor.

Blame the trawlers, not me.

My answer to you is the same as my answer to my cousin, all those years ago.

Bugger off!


Oh, and a load of fish fry, as opposed to a nice fried fish!

So not very ecologically minded at all then. Suppose you kill fluffy bunnies for fun, eh?

A lovely part of the world well known to me, Shipham mate!

Nephrops norvegicus, the Norway lobster.

Also known as the Dublin Bay prawn / langoustine / scampi.

This one was minding it's own business 260m down. They live in burrows and I reckon those holes on the port side of the pipeline could be this lobster's home.



Of course life ain't all beer and skittles being a Norway lobster and we often see them inside discarded lobster traps.

This trap had obviously been at this location for some tome time, so either the traps continue to catch lobsters long after the bait has gone, or the lobsters can live indefinitely inside the cage? Maybe food drifts in for them to eat?



Poor things. Although maybe better than their alternative?

Is grill brill, I suppose cooler than being on a BBQ or Willy's bra?
Not being cagey but

^ Fair enough, no more fish puns.

But how else to show your linguistic skills?

Originally Posted by Mendip

show your ling

you've sealed the deal

^^ They're like no mullet I've ever seen!

I'll think about it.


Anyway, Reg Dingle has lost his toilet glove!

Jack Sprat might call such a tiddler a fingerling

A nice pic of a rabbit fish (mouse/rat fish).

Originally Posted by Mendip

^^ They're like no mullet I've ever seen!

I'll think about it.


Anyway, Reg Dingle has lost his toilet glove!

What are the"Blurred Lines" line, obviously not my screen or yours as it curves over the pipe, are fish playing hopscotch in that sector or am I being Thicke?

The laser marker from the ROV

Originally Posted by DrWilly

The laser marker from the ROV

Ah yes , let's see if the Borat of Korat concurs, once he's revalved his pea shooter?

Originally Posted by DrWilly

The laser marker from the ROV

Yes, well done.

We collect several types of data and all has to reduced to the same position. The laser enables visual events to reduced to the same position as bathymetry (including cross-profile scans), pipetracker, CP etc etc.


Anyway, is it a girl?

No, it's a buoy!

Originally Posted by Mendip

Anyway, is it a girl?

No, it's a buoy!

Boom boom, green owed I'm out of peas at present.

Such splendid sub aqua shots seems to be mushing you into first plaice.

I've mentioned it before, but every single time I see a crab...



It's living with an anemone.



One of those things that once you notice...



It's just so obvious.



Always together.



Like a Brummie and a pie.



Or a gardener and a ya dong.



The daughter was doing some biology revision today for her end of term exams and I mentioned this to her. Classic mutualism... the anemones get food from when the crab crunches something up, but what does the crab get out of it?

Well, according to the daughter, with a 'don't you know that, dad?', these anemones have stinging cells on their tentacles and they protect the crab from predators.

So there ya go, shown up by a 13 year-old.

A smart one.

^^ Like a Bristolian and his cousin

Originally Posted by Mendip

So there ya go, shown up by a 13 year-old.

I don't doubt anyone here thinks it's the first time....

^ I don't mind being shown up by an exceptionally intelligent 13 year-old.

Guess where she gets her brains from?

And I'm not talking about faggots!


Anyway, a Blackmouth Catshark, although I must admit that I've never got close enough to confirm the colour of the mouth.

Originally Posted by Mendip

Guess where she gets her brains from?

The guy who steals elephant shit?

To be honest, I've never heard of a cat shark before...thanks!

Originally Posted by Topper

thanks!

np, as the daughter has taught me to say.

Here's a big ling for you, well over a metre long.

One fish like that and you could have fish and chips for a week!

Originally Posted by Mendip

ling

PS yes I'm the one with the beret Basque