Nautilus, Palau, 2011

Emporer Nautilus aka Chambered Nautilus. Divemaster Kostas reaches around an eel to grab a Nautilus raised from 200 meters below. The Nautiluses (and eel) were lured into the cage by a frozen chicken lowered and left in the cage overnight. We were told that this dive is environmentally sustainable and does not harm the Nautilus. Occasionally an eel hitches a ride along with the Nautiluses, as it did on our day of diving. See Paul Humann, et al, Reef Creature Identification (2010), page 405.