Jupiter FL - 7/11/2020 - Dive report and a few short clips

[Divin'Papaw]

Had a good day diving yesterday with the Jupiter Scuba Diving Kayalami crew. They are running the boat at 50% capacity so that is nice. Conditions were 1' or less with very little current which is always a pleasant surprise in Jupiter. Viz was 60s and a bit cloudy in spots but clearer in others. Air temps were in the upper 80s/low 90s and water temps were 83-84 F.

Highlights captured below ... Juvenile Hawksbill, huge Goliath Grouper that wouldn't budge, Tunnels, and a couple of Reef Sharks.

A juvenile Hawksbill let me hang around and watch him forage on Monkey's Ledge:



When you're a Goliath Grouper you don't move for nobody!! Also on Monkey's Ledge:


A couple of Snook and a juvenile Goliath Grouper on Tunnels:

 

[Divin'Papaw]

Last but not least a couple of Reef Sharks, one on Monkey's Ledge and one on Tunnels.

 

[Trailboss123]

Had a good day diving yesterday with the Jupiter Scuba Diving Kayalami crew. They are running the boat at 50% capacity so that is nice. Conditions were 1' or less with very little current which is always a pleasant surprise in Jupiter. Viz was 60s and a bit cloudy in spots but clearer in others. Air temps were in the upper 80s/low 90s and water temps were 83-84 F.

Highlights captured below ... Juvenile Hawksbill, huge Goliath Grouper that wouldn't budge, Tunnels, and a couple of Reef Sharks.

A juvenile Hawksbill let me hang around and watch him forage on Monkey's Ledge:



When you're a Goliath Grouper you don't move for nobody!! Also on Monkey's Ledge:


A couple of Snook and a juvenile Goliath Grouper on Tunnels:

Really nice-- thanks for posting. Love that lengthy clip with the Goliath Grouper and the Tunnels. Viz looked very clean.

 

[PoolsOpen]

Great footage, thanks for sharing.
I think you said you use a GoPro hero 8.
Do you use a red filter? Any editing?
Colors are amazing

I have a hero 7 and video colors are not as vivid.

 

[Divin'Papaw]

Great footage, thanks for sharing.
I think you said you use a GoPro hero 8.
Do you use a red filter? Any editing?
Colors are amazing

I have a hero 7 and video colors are not as vivid.

No filters. I find that using Dive+ to re-colorize videos and stills works better. I do it all on my iPhone.

 

[Divin'Papaw]

Great footage, thanks for sharing.
I think you said you use a GoPro hero 8.
Do you use a red filter? Any editing?
Colors are amazing

I have a hero 7 and video colors are not as vivid.

I try and keep it simple & easy. Natural light, little editing just color correction and some cropping, no fancy edited videos with music and stuff, just short videos and stills of nature at its finest. I figure there’s nothing I can do to improve it so why try.

I like all the other stuff it’s just not me. I capture video mainly to share with family and friends who don’t dive.

 

[Biotech Diver]

No filters. I find that using Dive+ to re-colorize videos and stills works better. I do it all on my iPhone.

I’m going to have to look into that because my GoPro footage isn’t very vivid.

 

[Biotech Diver]

Great videos! I dove with Kayalami for the first last month but conditions were poor that day. The crew was awesome! I can’t say enough good things about their dive operation.

I dove with South Florida Diving Headquarters last weekend. Visibility was decent but the current was really strong off of Pompano and it pushed us NE off of the reef into the sandy area. Still had a great dive though. Saw the biggest barracuda ever. It must have been 6 feet long and a 100 lbs. Some of the other divers saw over a dozen spinner dolphins. I was disappointed I missed it but I could hear them, which was still pretty cool. I must also say South Florida Diving Headquarters is also a great outfit, especially if you like wreck dives.

 

[dentlfly]

No filters. I find that using Dive+ to re-colorize videos and stills works better. I do it all on my iPhone.

was in west palm over july 4th week; went with pirates paradise divers; also great dive operator. used an olympus camera for first time underwater photos. also newly certified. what is the dive+ software you mentioned? thanks for sharing.

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[flyboy08]

Well done, thanks for posting.