Warning: At the beginning you will have a hard time identifying which species you saw, because some species look very different as juvenile from the adult individuals you might know so well.īut looking at the photos after the dive and making guesses with your dive buddies is actually part of the fun! "Fiction becoming reality!" Remember all the foreign creatures you have seen in sci-fi movies, dreamlike transparent creatures and cute little aliens with long arms, they will all come back to give you a show on your blackwater dives.īlackwater diving in the Andaman Sea offers you a chance to get unique photos: you might be the only one that got to “interact” with a particular jellyfish, plankton or larva before it vanishes into the darkness.īig stuff is quite rare on a black water dive but if you look carefully, you are sure to see juvenile stages of various species of Andaman Sea fishes, gastropods (snails and slugs), cephalopods (squids or octopuses smaller than your fingernail) and crustaceans (Shrimps, crabs, mantis).Įvery blackwater diver hopes to see a paper Nautilus, a juvenile sailfish or a blanket octopus one day but there are so many more "wonderful little monsters" to get acquainted with.
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