{"id":32409,"date":"2025-08-28T14:18:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.dan.org\/?post_type=dan_alert_diver&#038;p=32409"},"modified":"2025-08-28T14:18:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:18:43","slug":"once-in-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"dan_alert_diver","link":"https:\/\/world.dan.org\/es\/alert-diver\/article\/once-in-a-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"Once in a Lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Equipo:<\/strong> Nikon D500 camera, Sigma 105mm lens, Subal housing,&nbsp;two Ikelite DS160 strobes<br><strong>Configuraci\u00f3n:<\/strong> 1\/320 sec, f\/16, ISO 100<br><strong>Ubicaci\u00f3n <\/strong>Tim\u2019s Rock, Aiduma Island, Triton Bay, West Papua, Indonesia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-dan-light-gray-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-dan-light-gray-background-color has-background is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many octopuses, the female greater blue-ringed octopus (<em>Hapalochlaena lunulata<\/em>) is a semelparous animal, which means she reproduces once and then dies. After she lays a clutch of eggs, she quits eating and wastes away while protecting her eggs, dying shortly after her eggs hatch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While other octopuses lay their eggs under rocks or in crevices and guard them closely, the greater blue-ringed octopus incubates her clutch of between 50 and 100 eggs in her arms for about 50 days until they hatch. The divemaster and I watched this female as multiple paralarvae hatched and floated to the surface to begin their planktonic stage before settling on the ocean floor to become adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This image shows three larvae that have just hatched, another in the mother\u2019s arms close to hatching, and yet another needing more time to develop before hatching. 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