Down Mexico Way

Alex Tattersall · Issue 96, May/Jun 2017 · pp. 51–56

pipefish, cockatoo waspfish, garden eels, cowfish, flamboyant cuttlefish, box crabs, razorfish and many other species. But the biggest surprise was seeing three more Mototi octopus, including a pair that looked like they were involved in a courtship ritual. To say this site was going off was an understatement, it was more on steroids! We managed to dive this site three more times, and each time it seemed to get better and better. On each dive we photographed a great collection of cephalopods, including courting flamboyant cuttlefish, meandering coconut octopus, plus several greater blue-ringed octopus, a group of pharaoh’s cuttlefish, another wonderpus and numerous small stumpy spined cuttlefish. The Mototi octopus were there on every dive, but we also encountered a number of rare algae octopus. This site must rate as the best cephalopod dive site in the world! However, the dive crew fro…