Telescope Octopus

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Warm Up
300 swim
200 kick
300 K/D/S IM order
200 pull
1000

Main Set
2 x 75 K/D/S by 25 @ b +20
100 descend @ b
2 x 75 K/D/S by 25 @ b +20
200 descend by 50s @ b
2 x 75 K/D/S by 25 @ b +20
400 descend by 100s @ b
2 x 75 K/D/S by 25 @ b +20
200 descend by 50 @ b
2 x 75 K/D/S by 25 @ b +20
100 descend by 25 @ b
50 easy
1800

Warm Down
200 easy choice

TOTAL: 3,000

This octopus is transparent, almost colorless, and has 8 arms, all of the same size. Scientists don't know much about this rare pelagic octopus. And the evolution of its bizarre optical organs is largely a mystery. The telescope octopus is closely related to the glass octopus. It seems  to swim with its oblong opaque stomach and eyes aligned vertically, perhaps to reduce its profile that might be seen by predators below. Some researchers have speculated that the telescope octopus, the glass octopus and their close gelatinous relatives emerged to live out their full adult lives in an arrested larval-like stage (a phenomenon known as neoteny).