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The funny thing is that the day I got those shots of Caribbean reef and bull sharks together, it was a relief when the latter ran off the former - reef sharks can get a Napoleon complex at times; they figure if they're quick and fast enough they can zip in and grab a fish before you can react...

No, that was a Caribbean reef shark as well. Bulls are pretty easy to ID; between the bulk and the swimming style they look like weightlifters strutting out of the gym. Bull sharks in foreground and background; Caribbean reef shark second one from front with tail pointed towards camera...

Looks like all Caribbean reef sharks; they're pretty much a guaranteed sight on Shark Canyon nowadays.

There's not really drift diving as I would call it - I'm used to the Palm Beach coast in South Florida where you drop into the Gulf Stream and just go with it; on a whipping day you might end up 3-4 kilometers from where you went in. Revillagigedos by contrast you're trying to stay on the site...

I was out there Jan. 11-19 on the Nautilus Undersea. We got pretty lucky on the weather; smooth crossings both ways and got to do both Roca Partida and the Boiler. Worst current spot was actually Cabo Pearce on Socorro; that was the one day where I skipped a dive (it was also the day where we...

Useful source. Question for those who have been - is the temperature typically consistent throughout the water column, or are there thermoclines? I'm slated to go the second week of January and evaluating my exposure protection options. I've got a 4-year old 3-mil that's still holding up...

I was hemming and hawing about which hit to take - extra ~$200 to fly through Mexico City, or risk getting "taxed" on my TG-5 setup - and decided the former was preferable. I did that on my last Cabo run and had no problems, albeit I did disassemble my setup and scatter the bits about my luggage...

"F*** you, I did The Abyss." :shocked:

Problem is the rigs are already a functioning artificial reef; blowing the bottom part and its inhabitants up and dropping the near-surface community to the depths is a bit rude.

I used to be cheap (free) grad student labor for fish tagging/counting research on the E-series platforms off Huntington Beach; some of that work was specifically looking at which fish species use the upper ~100 ft of the platforms and would be affected by removing the upper 85 ft. Granted, for...

CuzzA sees one goliath on a ledge ... "My God man, they're EVERYWHERE!" CuzzA sees one small shark approaching to maybe 30 feet ... "The sharks are aggressive and out of control!" *sizzling and screaming noises* Since we're drawing conclusions from individual photos, I'll post these I took...

That's kind of a hilarious take, given that FWC has had multiple stock assessments rejected and according to their own "alternative metrics" (a term I could not resist mocking in front of the commission and FWRI staff) they need another 10 years of data collection (data they could have gotten...

Kind of funny under your hypothesis how a) they selectively barf up large reef fish instead of little things like burrfish and crabs, and b) the research data matches what spearfishers were reporting from cleaning their goliath kills back in the day.

Talk to a gator handler; you'd be surprised at how little food a big, mostly sedentary ectothermic animal requires (the one I know who feeds the gator pool at Everglades Holiday Park gives each one about 2 lbs./1 kilo of chicken a week and considers that slight overfeeding). Tony has had...

His point is that the "research" is data that is mostly already gathered through nonlethal means, and has been gathered for years. The only extra bit they're really getting is otoliths, which aren't that useful when the fish are all in the same size/age class. "Research" is a flimsy...

Gee, wonder how they weren't "out of control" before us humans came along? As an FYI, they do not eat "everything." The bulk of their diet is crustaceans and other slow-moving things (they seem to eat a lot of burrfish; snapper/grouper make up ~3%of the stomach contents). Go on a site with...

Four "bombers," as the RN calls them, is what they had to work with starting in the late 1960s with the old R-class; they did still have the Avro Vulcans and smaller strike aircraft but those were downgraded to a tactical nuclear role with the WE.177 nuclear bomb. They wanted to build a fifth...

If I had to guess, it got hit in the bow and the midships hole is right about where one would typically expect the battery compartment to be on a diesel-electric boat, so I'm thinking battery explosion after the resulting fire. Even if it wasn't a total constructive loss, I don't think the yard...