Grunion lay their eggs. The male then wraps himself around the female to deposit his sperm, and for the next 10 days the grunion eggs remain hidden in the sand. At the next set of high tides, the eggs hatch and the young grunion are washed out to sea. A related species, the false grunion ("Colpichthys regis") lives in the Gulf of California. Although the fish looks and acts similarly, it does not have the same breeding method. The currently recognized species in this genus are: Grunion were originally classified as part of the Atherinidae family of silversides, but are now
USS Grunion Iwasaki. He sent them a translation of an article written by the officer who had commanded the merchant ship "Kano Maru". The article described an encounter with a submarine near Kiska Island in the Aleutians about the time the "Grunion" was reported missing. Several years later, John Abele, cofounder of Boston Scientific, met Dr. Robert Ballard, famous for discovering the RMS Titanic's wreckage. Ballard gave him advice on how to locate a shipwreck, and Abele decided to fund an expedition to find the lost submarine "Grunion". In 2006, Williamson Associates, using side-scan sonar, located a promising target at almost at