Jerry Pucelik of Las Cruces, N.M.

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Jerry Pucelik

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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.| | | | **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.| | | | **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.| | | | **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.| | | | **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.| | | | **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.| | | | **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.| | | | **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.|

| Jerry Pucelik **from Las Cruces, N.M.** **Age**: 69 **Years Diving**: 31 **Certification**: NAUI|

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