The vermetid, like a periscope watching its prey, looms up from the sea floor spurting expeditiously, its feeding parts ready to erupt. It is able to filter out polluted water to make it clean and it is a help to our environment. Vermetids devour the polluted particles that endanger our waters. But they tend to also be a nuisance. They thrive on the bottom of ships and create a drag. These ships are slowed down and required to work harder in order to reach their destinations because of these tiny vermetids holding on for all that they live for.

-Lianne Metcalf

Stuck on the bottom of the foot of the ocean, the lazy vermetid sits like a fat old man on a seesaw. Its eye searches for food and it filters it out of the surrounding ocean. The crusty, barnacle-like vermetid clings onto the underbelly of ships creating drag and slowing ships down. It filters out dirty water and cleans the ocean. Vermetids can clean a whole bay if enough of them are placed there. They affect humans because they clean water and they create more work for ships.

-Alex Gino

The vermetid sucks algae like a vacuum on a cleaning rampage. It exists as a snail that lives in the tube. It serves as a filter to clean the waters of the tide pool from harmful zooxanthellae that can harm us if we eat fish poisoned by the zooxanthellae. It can’t survive in subzero temperatures but can sustain itself on the edges of a shallow tidal hole.

-C.J. Ceria