A Neat Idea

I added navigation structures to the end of every page. If you read all the way to the end of a long page ** you'll find all your navigation options waiting for you at the bottom. So you don't have to scroll all the way back to the top, although you always could do that with just one click.

The structure at the bottom is the most complete navigation 'node' of any; it makes use of all the screen space available in the main area. You can use it to pick your way from one page to the next through entire sections of the website, if you are so inclined.

I have about 3/4 of all the pages/subjects loaded into the new website, with the Dive Sites, Artificial Reefs, and Artifacts sections finished. I've slowed down a lot, but I'll get to the end eventually, and then this site will take over from the old one. This is so much easier to maintain than the old static PHP.

** Do people still read? Or just watch videos?


Sea Squirts

Molgula manhattensis ( right )
Styela Partita
( left )

Sea Squirts are found attached intertidally to subtidally. They show an extraordinary tolerance for brackish and polluted water, which makes them highly survivable in urban areas. Sea Squirts, usually about an inch in diameter, are capable of ejecting a stream of water when agitated, hence the name. Usually found in groups of several animals. See also: Horned Salp.

Tunicates are much more advanced in the evolutionary scheme of things than anemones, having, for example, a circulatory system. The larvae actually even have several features in common with vertebrates, including the precursor of a spinal cord, but these are lost in the sac-like sessile adults.

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