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  • Sea lions can be quite inquisitive. While diving with a friend in Monterey, California, I would tap two rocks together, to get the attention the sea lions. Sometimes their groups would completely engulf us, and a few braver sea lions would come right up to us to figure out what we were.
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  • After a so-so dive offshore of Monterey, our dive team was given an amazing safety stop as large sea nettle jellies began drifting by. Usually the jellyfish come in after large algal blooms, so to be in the middle of a jelly smack with clear water was quite a treat.
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  • A chain of sea salps drifts by underneath a kelp canopy near Monterey, California. It may seem hard to believe, but these alien looking organisms are related to humans, both being classed in the phylum Chordata.
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  • The ocean's surface becomes chaotic right before humpback whales re-appear. The whales push the anchovy schools closer to the surface to be able to lunge feed, which the sea lions and flocks of birds use to their advantage to also get in on the feeding action.
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  • This humpback continually breached and fin slapped for over an hour. While there are a few different guesses as to why whales breach, such as to get the attention of other whales and to help clean themselves of paraites, there is still no definitive answer.
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  • A large group of humpback whales are spotted near the shore as their spouts are backlit by the sunrise. I found it interesting to juxtapose the whale's pleasing spouts with the large man-made power plant stacks in the background.
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