End of the night, for the mating California Market squid, they are moving slowly now. Dying and exhausted squid are seen on the seafloor, the dead parents distract predators away from the helpless egg sacs planted elsewhere on the ocean bottom. At :11 a female enters frame from top center-left, carrying an egg sac (see tell-tale long strings that trail out, strings are for anchoring the sac into the sand), she is first gripped by multiple male which then release her. The female with egg sac in her arms hesitates in center frame, low over the sand, and then she swims away, backwards. In fact, you see many female squids carrying an egg sac in her tentacles. The egg sacs are approximately the same shape and color as the squids, but a little smaller. A camouflaged Pacific sand dab, flatfish, (Citharichthys sordidus), resting on the sand, first reveals himself at :12 by shaking sand off his head. Then the flatfish swims forward at :30, swimming along just above the seafloor. California Channel Islands.

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