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Here Comes the Sun (Star)
December 16, 2019
TAS ’18 Roy Moffitt documented this sun star, one of many seastars found attached to the DAFT (Direction Acoustic Fish Tracker) mooring.
Photo: Roy Moffitt
What the DAFT [mooring] was not designed to do, but does well, is catch sea life... Yesterday we pulled two of these “Legos” from the sea and they were covered with marine life... There was another sea star with nine legs. It was very pretty and looks like a drawing of the sun. Not surprising, I found out this one is called the Sun Star.Read the blog post
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