DIVE

Diving involves choosing a dive site (1 of the 3 columns on your ocean mat) and moving a diver from top to bottom, gaining benefits along the way. Thematically, this represents observing and studying fish in their habitats.

Follow these steps to dive:

1.Select a dive site. Place an available diver at the top of a column.

2. Check the topmost dive site bonus. You may gain the bonus printed at the top of the column if you have at least 1 fish (card or forage fish) in the same column of the Sunlight Zone.

a. : () Draw a fish card from the deck.

b. : () Put an egg on a fish (in your ocean) that doesn’t already have one. Each fish can hold at most 1 egg.

c. : () Hatch one of your eggs. (Flip over the egg token so the young side is face up.)*

3. Move down the dive site. As the diver moves down—one row at a time—you may gain “IF ACTIVATED” benefits on fish cards as well as other dive site bonuses. You always move your diver through all 3 zones to the bottom of your ocean, even when you don’t have fish in one or more zones of the dive site.

a.“IF ACTIVATED” BENEFIT: If the fish has an “IF ACTIVATED” ability, you may gain the benefit. If the benefit says, “all players,” each player may decide whether to gain the benefit.

b. DIVE SITE BONUS: Just like the topmost dive site bonus, there is a dive site bonus you may gain above the Twilight Zone (if you have a fish in the same column there), and above the Midnight Zone (if you have a fish in the same column there).

4. Gain the bottom bonus. One of two things happens when a diver reaches the bottom of your ocean mat:

a. If this is the first time a diver reached the bottom of this dive site this week, place the diver in the white box and you may gain the bottom bonus.

b. If this isn’t the first time a diver reached the bottom of this dive site this week, place the diver in the gray box below the dive site. You don’t gain the bottom bonus.

*If hatching an egg results in 3 or more young sharing the same slot in your ocean, form a school.