Topic: seahorse

Underwater photographer Don Inose captured this stunning image of a seahorse at the Don Foster’s dive site in George Town recently.

Seahorses used to be fairly uncommon sights in Cayman, but over the past year or so, divers seem to be finding them more and more. At one West Bay dive site alone, within yards of each other, three of the shy creatures were spotted this week.

The long-snouted seahorse, Hippocampus reidi (greek: horse/sea monster), which shares the family Syngnathidae with pipefish, is found from Brazil to North Carolina. It can be...