Cave Life

I've never ventured underwater into a cave with a macro set up before, but thought it would be interesting to see the small stuff and know what species are in the cave environment of Wet Dream Cave. This amphipod is likely Stygobromus quatsinensis (quatsino cave amphipod). On a later dive, I collected a sample which I delivered to a biologist for study and identification. If positively identified, this will expand the known range of the species which is restricted to a few flooded caves on the North Pacific coast. It is small in size at only a few millimetres and fast moving. I had to constantly shift my camera around to capture it, sometimes moving to where I think it might go and hope it is within my depth of field, which was also only a few millimetres.