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