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Dive at Kawaihae Harbor/Nudi Madness. Max depth 19ft/6m, avg depth 13ft/4m, avg temp 82F/28C.

This was really fun-- there was a large spiky urchin walking across the sand, crossing from one reef to the next, and swimming around in the protective halo of its spines was a little baby toby (and a bonus urchin crab in its anus, of course). Armored personnel carrier for the toby! The toby swam off into a reef hole when the urchin had crossed all the way.

Tonna attacking Stichopus sea cucumber at night. As he extended his proboscis around the sea cucumber, the cucumber shed its skin on two sides of its body and slipped away, releasing its grip on the bottom and floating away in the surge. The Tonna was left with two flaps of tough skin that it did not eat (second photo).

Small juvenile green turtle, part of a group of 6 turtles that were collectively rehabilitated and released by NOAA program staff ~5 miles off Pearl Harbor Oahu. These animals were simultaneously released with passive drifters, described in Figure 2 of this study: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ece3.2034