{"id":1114,"date":"2010-02-05T20:25:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T01:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2010-02-06T04:59:25","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T09:59:25","slug":"cold-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"Cold water"},"content":{"rendered":"

… well, not really!<\/p>\n

Water temperature last summer in the ocean was +-87 degrees. Very warm.\u00a0\u00a0 Now, in the middle of the winter, its +-80 degrees.\u00a0 Most people who will read this blog post will scoff at what I just wrote. Well, I can tell its colder by how my fellow divers are adapting. Last week-end, I was the only diver on the boat without a wetsuit. When someone asked me how come I was not wearing one, I instantly answered “I’m a Canadian”. The person (who was an American) seemed satisfied with my answer. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

On one of my recent dives, I dove with very experienced diver (and a great chap) called Kelly!\u00a0 Of course he had a camera and took the following pictures. (Thanks)<\/p>\n

Here is a large Moray eel we saw in a crevasse.\u00a0\u00a0 It was probably 4-5ft long. It was about only 12-18 inches away when he took this picture. I wisely stayed back a bit further.<\/p>\n

\"green-moray\"<\/p>\n

This cute guy, also a Moray eel, but spotted this time, was about the size of a hot dog sausage.<\/p>\n

\"spotted-eel\"<\/p>\n

During our dive, a school of Horseye Jacks swam above of for a long time. It was a very graceful show.\u00a0 These fish are actually quite large, probably 16 inches long or so.<\/p>\n

\"horseeye-jacks\"<\/p>\n

Near the end of our dive, we saw this: A lionfish.\u00a0 Beautiful!\u00a0 However, as I have discussed a few posts back, are an invasive species.\u00a0 This is only the second one I have seen.\u00a0 It was a large adult specimen.<\/p>\n

\"lionfish\"<\/p>\n

No wetsuit!<\/p>\n

\"you\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

… well, not really! Water temperature last summer in the ocean was +-87 degrees. Very warm.\u00a0\u00a0 Now, in the middle of the winter, its +-80 degrees.\u00a0 Most people who will read this blog post will scoff at what I just wrote. Well, I can tell its colder by how my fellow divers are adapting. Last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-cayman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1125,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/1125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}