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Any scuba diver knows the importance of expecting the unexpected. A while back, Lazara Rudo, a dive guide and marine photographer in Palm Beach, Florida, was exploring the deep blue sea when he found something unexpected lurking 60-feet down on the ocean floor: an American Alligator, which is a freshwater species. He documented the adventure on his blog, The Living Sea. Rudo visits many of the same dive sites quite often, and although he often sees something new on every adventure, he also knows what to expect to some degree. But he never expected to encounter an alligator hanging out more than ten miles from the nearest coastal inlet. Before he encountered the alligator that had apparently been washed out to sea, Rudo said the most unexpected thing he had seen near the reef was a massive humpback whale in just 40-feet of water