Cuttlefish swim and hover using their fluttering side fins, but when they need to make a quick escape they use a water jet below their bodies - you can see these two fighter planes in the photo as they make a quick escape!
The red cuttle is not always red - this series of shots shows the one individual as it changes colour from dark red to lighter mauve. This is one of three cuttle species in Australia; the yellow lining around the eye is diagnostic of the species.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Giant cuttlefish Sepia apama at the point at Second Valley, South Australia. Date: 22 January 2014, 10:38:34. Source: Own work. Author: Peter Southwood. Camera location 35° 30′ 34.02″ S, 138° 12′ 52.16″ E: View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap - Google Earth: -35.509450; 138.214490.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Sepia pharaonis at the Birch Aquarium in San Diego, California, USA. Date: 14 December 2009. Source: Own work. Author: Stickpen. Permission (Reusing this file): public domain.
Summary[edit] Description: English: A cuttlebone of a cuttlefish (ventral). This cuttlebone may be the sepion of Kisslip cuttlefish (Sepia lycidas) because of its outline and thickened inner cone (identified by User:Kingfiser). 日本語: カミナリイカの甲 (腹側)。内円錐が深く厚くなっているため、カミナリイカ Sepia lycidasのものであると同定できる(User:Kingfiserによる同定)。 Another side. Date: 24 June 2012. Source: Own work. Author: Mariko GODA.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Portion of a ripe ovary of Sepia (cuttlefish) showing ova of various sizes and some empty capsules c, c. Date: 31 December 1875. Source: https://archive.org/details/contributionstod00lank. Author: E. Ray Lankester.
Summary[edit] Description: English: Giuseppe Jatta,1896 I Cefalopodi viventi nel Golfo di Napoli (sistematica) : monografia Series: Fauna und Flora des Golfes von Neapel und der angrenzenden Meeres Abschnitte ; 23. Monographie Stazione zoologica di Napoli Berlin :R. Friedländer & Sohn,1896 Tav.3 Illustration by Comingio Merculiano (1845- 1915),the in-house illustrator (from 1885) at Naples Zoological Station. He was a professional watercolour painter. 1. Loligo vulgaris Lamarck, 1798 European squid 2. Scaeurgus unicirrhus (Chiaie, 1839-41 in Férussac and D'Orbigny, 1834-1848) Atlantic Warty Octopus or Unihorn Octopus 3. Sepia officinalis Linnaeus, 1758 Common Cuttlefish or European Common Cuttlefish 4. Eledone moschata (Lamarck, 1798) Musky Octopus. Date: 1896. Source: https://archive.org/https://archive.org/stream/icefalopodiviven00jatt#page/n23/mode/2up. Author: Comingio Merculiano (1845–1915).