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Article: Wild diving: the biodiversity of the Turks and Caicos provides a stunning dive experience. (Focus On: Dive).(Bahama islands)
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- Hot Rod
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- November 11, 2002
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Although it's only the size of a fingernail, ondontosyllis enolpa, a glow worm whose amours create some 15 minutes' worth of kaleidoscopic underwater color, is one of the biggest reasons to dive the waters of the Turks and Caicos. As the female releases her spiraling, luminescent egg mass, the male dances a zigzag that spins a bright green counterglow. The mating rites of ondontosyllis enolpa delight divers every month for three to six nights after a full moon.
But that's just the start of the Turks and Caicos dive experience. The eight inhabited islands of the Turks and Caicos--there are 40 islands altogether--trail off the southeastern islands of the Bahamas, ...