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Sea cucumbers in this area are absolutely enormous.

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This one might be one of the biggest ones I've ever seen. It's got to be at least 20 centimeters long.

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How graceful. Yeah.

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I find it so fascinating because the shallow water sea cucumbers are really stuck to the bottom,

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they're not as flexible as this, where they can propel themselves off the seafloor.

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Constantly feeding. These sea cucumbers are feeding on the depositions in the sediment here.

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Basically grabbing fistfuls of sediment, forcing it into their mouths, trying to extract any sort of organic material out of it.

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This one's a hungry one.

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You really have to pass a lot of sediment through your gut to get any nutrition out of the sediment.

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It's kind of an interesting shot from Seirios view with all the sea cucumbers.

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There's just sea cucumbers everywhere.

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Change the name of this dive from mounds to Holothurian Hill.

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Yeah, they're everywhere.