Ryla

Ryla
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Interests:	Cave diving
Occupation(s):	Cave diver
Gender:	Female
Color:	Gray, Pink, Purple
Species:	Gray Wombat
Friends:	Dashi, Captain Barnacles, Peso, Coba, Kwazii, Shellington, Tracker
Nationality:	Australian
First episode appearance:	The Octonauts and The Caves of Sac Actun
Final episode appearance:	The Volcano Sharks
Character played by:	Helen Walsh

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Ryla is an old friend of Dashi’s from before she had joined the Octonauts. She first appears in The Octonauts and The Caves of Sac Actun. She helps Captain Barnacles, Peso and the little octopus Coba in the underwater caves by giving them tips on how to survive cave diving. Ryla is an expert cave diver who knows the best ways to get in and out of underwater caves safely, though she can be prone to injury. Dashi went with Ryla on cave diving adventures as her photographer to provide pictures for Ryla's cave diving book. Ryla was in the Sac Actun caves for few days, with her leg being injured after getting in a twist, before Barnacles and Peso got there. She survived in the cave by eating bat berries, which she quite enjoyed, especially with a little cave moss, as shown in the movie.

She is voiced by Helen Walsh, and returns in Octonauts: Above & Beyond as a reoccurring Octo-Agent. She appears in the Above & Beyond Season 1 episode "The Mountain River Cave" where she, Kwazii, and Shellington are going cave exploring in Hang So’n Doòng, Vietnam until the rain fills up the entrance with water forcing them to go forward through the large cave where they soon encounter an Indo-Chinese Tiger who is also trying to get out of the cave.

In Above and Beyond Season 2, she appears in The Salt-Mining Elephants, where she and Dashi help rescue some caved-in elephants, then appears in The Missing Lake, where she is called to help rescue Tracker and Uncle Buck, a red deer, from an underground cave under a sinkhole.

After making no appearances in Above & Beyond Season 3, she appears three times in Above & Beyond Season 4. In Hazardous Habitats, she rescues Dashi & Shellington from a flooding cave; in Great Pacific Clean-Up, she aids in a group mission; and in Volcano Sharks, she helps a baby shark escape an erupting underwater volcano.

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She is a gray wombat with a pink tuft of hair on her head in an orange and purple diving suit and helmet, black diving flippers on her feet, and has a bandage around her leg, as she got it in a twist when entered the caves a few days ago looking for a special creature, the poisonous venom tooth. Instead of a helmet, her suit has a pullover mask to help her breathe while she dives. Her air tank was also grey and white during her initial appearance, but after being found by Dashi and Kwazii, she eventually received a standard orange Octonaut air tank. She doesn’t have the cave diving gear in Above and Beyond and instead wears a spelunking outfit with the same colors as her diving suit.

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"The name's Ryla."
"Oy!"
"(Chuckles) Easy, Mate! I'm not gonna hurt ya."
"Octonauts. You're Dashi's mates."
"Trust me, Peso. It can always get worse. But we can‘t give up now."
"A backup gets you back out!"
"Good day Dashi."
''Bonza!''
"Gup? What's a gup?"
The Caribbean Sea!"
''We're not gonna make it!''
“Oh, just an old wombat with a bad leg.”

Trivia[]

Ryla seems to be one of the only main protagonists of the Octonauts franchise to have an Australian accent.
She's one of the first main protagonists to actually have an Australian accent, as she is still one of the only main protagonists of the Octonauts to have one, and this she has the accent because she's a wombat, and wombats come from Australia, which would be accurate in common sense.