![]() ![]() I don’t know what kind of range Hayako’s fish-dar’s got, but it isn’t much. ![]() On my first attempt I tried bringing Hayako along, starting at square A1 and going left to right, north to south. I really hadn’t been back to the placid waters of Gatama Atoll for quite awhile, and then it was in my “hurry up and finish the map” days when I didn’t take my time to explore carefully. As of now, there are still about 40 species left to discover, at least a third of which are located somewhere in Gatama Atoll. Now it’s time to hunt down all those fish I’ve been missing. More specifically, a whole passel of ’em, marauding and striking every time we try to introduce ourselves to a docile coelacanth. I’m talking, of course, about that most unhandsome of elasmobranchs, the goblin shark. All the more amazing that only one of these is the legendary coelacanth our Marine Encyclopedia says we need to find - we have to paw through the crowd, asking “Are you the one? What about you?”īut we’re just starting to mingle when some uninvited guests show up to spoil the party. If, like me, you grew up fascinated by the discovery of this impossibly rare and ancient fish in the waters of the Black Sea, and assumed there were maybe one or two of them in existence, it’s mind-boggling to see so many packed in one place. Turning north here, we’re met with the impressive sight of the thickest concentration of Coelacanths ever witnessed. Next we execute that slick maneuver of descending through a trapdoor behind a statue of Horus, bypassing the Subterranean Reception Room with its many hungry spider crabs, and up through the ceiling into the Pillars of Shadow.
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