| Show Red Squirrelfish striped Yellow Grunts Sergeant-Majors Sergeant Angelfish Angelfish Angel Angel- fish and many others dart past the helmets helmet's window Many forms of sea sea life other than fish attract the attention of the diver On the rocks are related to snails whose shells are arranged in overlapping overlapping overlap overlap- overlapping ping plates Pulled loose from a areef areef reef they curl up like miniature armadillos Lovely sea anemones wave pastel-colored pastel tentacles to and fro like the languid arms of odalisques On the sand are puffy black blacksea sea puddings tiny scuttling crabs crawling starfish and spiny sea urchins Stepped on the spines of these so-called so hedgehogs of the sea frequently break off in ones one's foot Bermuda is an ideal place in which to observe fish by means I of helmets for tor two reasons The Gulf stream which flows like a warm sapphire river through the Atlantic north of Bermuda protects protects protects pro pro- the islands from cold and insures a teeming supply of semitropical semi semi- tropical fish The islands are coral formations on the top of a submarine sub marine mountain and thus scientific scientific scientific dives may be made very near shore to observe both deep and shallow water species of fish |
