It's a Fish Fiesta!

This is what looks like a limestone outcrop. Lots of fish. So many fish. These red fish that we've been seeing are slimeheads. Oh, I think that's a quinsnapper. So actually we're seeing quite an assemblage of different fish species. Yeah, this is the quinsnapper. Cartusho would be the common name in Puerto Rico. This is one of the commercially relevant ones. It's very interesting behavior to see that it is lying on the sea floor like this. Pink frogmouth is the common name for this. This is within the genus Shawnax, and they are super fun. They're the ones who have walking fins. They just capture your imagination. Oh, I love them. Oh, wow! Oh, wow! Oh, shark! Oh, that is cool. So it's a six-billed shark. It's a male. What else can we say about it? It's a very widely distributed species, and a lot of these deep-sea sharks actually are very slow-growing and long-lived with very late reproduction, which makes them particularly vulnerable. So many people are afraid of sharks, but they're really just beautiful animals. They really are.