We had a rare and brief encounter with Mola Molas while diving off the Marine Room on Sunday--here is a link to both the video and the dive report:
http://raptureofthedeep.org/index.ph...m-la-jolla-ca/
Enjoy!
Mikey
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VIDEO: Mola Molas off the Marine Room in La Jolla
We had a rare and brief encounter with Mola Molas while diving off the Marine Room on Sunday--here is a link to both the video and the dive report:
http://raptureofthedeep.org/index.ph...m-la-jolla-ca/
Enjoy!
Mikey
'Blessed Are They Who Learn from Their Mistakes: for they shall make, if not fewer of them, different and more interesting ones."
Rapture of the Deep:
www.raptureofthedeep.org
Oh, I'm envious! Mola Molas are still on my "to see" list.
"What other sport is there where a cute woman has trouble getting rid of her underwear?" Doppler
They were on my 'bucket' list too!Originally Posted by LCF
'Blessed Are They Who Learn from Their Mistakes: for they shall make, if not fewer of them, different and more interesting ones."
Rapture of the Deep:
www.raptureofthedeep.org
I got to see a school of them when I was out kayaking last week with Claudette. They got completely screwed by evolution. It's like these poor fellas must have just been left in the corner and forgotten for about one billion years, then all of a sudden Evolution said, "Whoops, what did I leave here on the floor, better throw that poor little fella back into the pool!"
I think you guys are way over thinking this thing, if it was worth all this heavy brainiac thought, Tobin would be on here. Go diving. -- AzTek Diver
Good point!
They don't seem very hydrodynamic in the water--I keep expecting them to 'fall over' any second--thank goodness they're in a fluid environment--but, even there, they look unstable--so, I was surprised at how fast they took off!
'Blessed Are They Who Learn from Their Mistakes: for they shall make, if not fewer of them, different and more interesting ones."
Rapture of the Deep:
www.raptureofthedeep.org
To be fair they swim upright and on their sides, so this proves that they are evolutionarily retarded.
Thanks for sharing the video, they are fun to watch afterall!
I think you guys are way over thinking this thing, if it was worth all this heavy brainiac thought, Tobin would be on here. Go diving. -- AzTek Diver
Cool to see a pair swimming in local waters that way. Coming back to Long Beach on the Cee Ray two weeks back, I couldn't figure what was floating out in the middle of nowhere.. two white hunks of something I couldn't make out.. then, maybe 100 hundred yards out as we got closer I could clearly see it was two Mola Mola's at the surface for a cleaning. Each had a bird on them pecking away. It was like a Discovery episode from as unlikely a place as the Express charing through the water.
Pretty cool to see how large they really are and to see the symbiotic behavior first hand.
Thanks for the video.. I sure wish I had mine that day. Nice job!
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