Attack of the Sea Slugs

Visit www.ChampWilliams.com. Orange sea pens bring color to the stark landscape of the subtidal sand flats. Orange sea pens are not alone, hiding in wait is a creature with an acquired taste for sea pens.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• under
• sand
• springs
• devours
• eat
• time
• lapse
• slow
• motion
• water
• night
• Puget
• Sound
• viscous
• lunges
• crawls
• sea
• star
• tube
• feet
• tentacles
• beak
• orange
• pens
• striped
• neudibranch
• underwater
• cinematography
• ocean
• undersea
• attack
• slugs
• subtidal
• neudibranches

[toomuchcrack1]

How big are those things?

[uncntruth]

@toomuchcrack1 Usually just a couple inches, but I've come across some unusually large ones closer to 5 inches.

[FREEKILL117]

Does anyone know...how they actually get this footage?

i mean they gotta be so deep below the sea!

[uncntruth]

@FREEKILL117 Takes a long time! If you google "Champ Williams deep sea news" you'll find an interview where I describe the process in detail.

[Marycute121]

Good film. I got a book on Nudibranch's and it says that there MOST of the time smaller.

but that is cool

[uncntruth]

@Marycute121 You're right, most of the time they are 2-3 inches. When I've seen them in dense sea pen beds they are usually 3-4.

[Maggiekvet2b]

I love it! Of course, that's a marine biologist talking. Well-done!!!

[6852660]

That is so cool! I love it!

[lamakinaproduce1]

cool!!! congratulations!

[mgonzalezLOVE]

Yum

[MultiMaxpayne123]

its gary's father! lol

[uncntruth]

No, I don't think its likely they would bite a person. Unlike most nudibranchs though, they actually have a calcified beak. Its really quite small though!

[Leslieqrussell]

Wow that guy has a great voice!!! Lol, spuds like my teacher hehehhehehheh

[lynxvex]

They look like vaginas eating

[donutooo]

sea slug can be a pet and be nice to it or it'll harm u :)