In scuba parlance, muck diving is generally defined as having three components:
- Sandy/silty bottom
- A nearby freshwater source (which makes visibility poor)
- Human influence
So goodbye pretty reefs (for a couple of days), hello junk-strewn piers, harbors and beaches. Why dive this environment?.....because despite their general ickiness, they are filled with some of the most interesting and diverse marine life in the world (as I will hopefully show here).
juvenile boxfish (the size of your pinky fingernail)
The art of camouflage (razorfish)
Look into my eyes (juvenile porcupinefish).......
peek-a-boo
The very shy mandarinfish
A face only a mother could love!
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