Cool pic of a spiny sea urchin that had some kind of rock, sand or debris on top...
This is a shrimp in a cave...
This is another photo of another red "scrunci" an egg sack for something I cant recall the name of... found during our dive at Au Au Canyon.
Pretty shell, with something living inside found upside-down so we put it back on the rock right side down and it started to crawl away...
Pin cushion star, I think these are so cool...
Long limbs... a green sea star...
A Crown of Thorns Sea Star, named after the poisonous spikes that cover it's entire body, we had a dive buddy who accidentally touched this very venomous star and became ill for quite some time as his body tried to rid itself of the toxins. They are green in color are usually very large and they eat coral. 
This is a marlin spike I should have had Vinny put his hand next to it for reference it was a huge shell! I would venture to say almost twelve inches in length! Vinny found it under the sand from its tracks left above the sandy bottom.
Another cone shell Vinny uncovered and is holding...
These are photos of King Helmet Seashells we came across four or five during dives and each time we would put a collector sea urchin in front of it, their diet, and wait for the helmet snail to envelop the urchin to eat. Well each time we did this we would wait to no avail. I guess all of the shells we had happened upon weren't hungry during our dives. Then on our very last dive there was this one crazy urchin...
Apparently this is a case where after we left helmet shell to perhaps devour the urchin while we were swimming along looking at other cool stuff, but when we came back to it we found the urchin had scurried atop it's predator, the safest place it could be!
Dive master Vinny, on the left was laughing so hard I thought he was going to drop his reg, breath in water and leave the rest of us to rescue him! He couldn't believe the site we had come back to! 
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