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06/30/2014, 11:05 AM | #1 |
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What is the coolest thing you have ever seen snorkeling, SCUBA diving, or freediving
The coolest thing I have ever seen is a Caribbean rock mantis smash and eat a small blenny. What was the coolest you have ever seen
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06/30/2014, 01:44 PM | #2 |
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Dang. This is hard lol. One that comes to mind is snorkeling at molasses reef and seeing a school of 5-6ft snook.
Another was a blue marlin going after a school of mahi that we were catching. I'm sure others will come to mind later lol My dream is to see and jump in the water with a Mola Mola!! Btw, i'm very jealous of where you live. It's beautiful there. I'm going to the islands next month on a cruise I love it there. |
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It is pretty nice the second place for me is ( both the mantis thing and this were seen while I was hunting lionfish) I saw a gigantic crab with claws at least 6" long and it just sat there. I have also seen a baby Nassau grouper and a juv. Queen angelfish. I have seen so many sharks over the years but about a month ago I saw a 4' bull shark. 'bout scared the crap out of me
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I saw a school of Moorish Idols in Hawaii which was really beautiful.
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06/30/2014, 10:35 PM | #5 |
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In Florida I saw manta rays mating.
In Grand Caiman stingray cove was pretty cool. The whole ocean floor in the area was covered in stingrays. I also saw a hammerhead eat a stingray. The coolest thing I saw was a bunch of NAVY divers in the Erie Canal. |
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Many years ago, diving off La Jolla, CA the squid were breeding. Millions of squid!
Below the squid were thousands of bat rays. Below the bat rays were bazillions of squid egg cases that the bat rays were feeding on. Very cool. Circle of life...
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Once attempted to take the picture of a cardinal fish during a night dive, a moray eel ate the cardinal just as I snapped the picture...got a great picture of the eel
Another time, while doing rescue training in the surf (working as a DM), a 4' hammerhead came past...everyone on the beach (Hollywood, FL) stood up screaming shark. It was just like a scene out of Jaws The instructor and myself, we turned to watch the shark and stayed in the water....laughing about the panic on shore
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Sea turtles
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07/01/2014, 05:17 PM | #11 |
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Well . . . an isolated dolphin at Little Cayman trying to associate with divers; mating flamboyant cuttlefish (Indonesia, PNG, etc); an orca (Northern Papua New Guinea); a group of 8 silvertip sharks (northern PNG); three different species of Rhinopias (PNG, Indonesia); a manta cleaning station (PNG); the great white wall (fiji); dwarf mimic octopus (Indonesia) and blue ringed octopus (Indonesia); intoxicated (from eating the equivalent of marine crack) sea turtles (PNG); a Bobbit worm take a flying gunard; a shoal of dolphins (various); sea snake; whale shark; weedy and leafy sea dragons (southern oz near Kangaroo Island) and more.
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Nose to nose with a barracuda
Moray eels at Key Largo 6ish foot reef shark at Key Largo And the damn Lion fish (invasive species) in the Bahamas at several locations. Amazing how many and how widespread they are. |
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You're going make me go through my slides and scan that one in, aren't you?
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Most irritated I ever was with a fish, Barracuda hanging under the dive boat at Little Cayman. Had a camera and lens set up that required a minimum of arms length distance to focus. Damned Barracuda wouldn't back up more than a foot back from my face
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Eagle Ray in Cozumel.
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Easy... A thousand plus breeding ball of snapper in Belize. It was crazy!
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The Bahamas lionfish are out of control and now there are what used to be reefs that are now lionfish only it is horrible. In the BVI it is illegal to kill them so soon that is either going to change or the BVI will need to find a new way to get their income
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Snorkeling with whale sharks and manta rays off Mexico and bouncing off the top of the mouth of a whale shark that came up behind me
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