gopbroek
Contributor
Last week on a dive at Palancar a 6-7 Nurse Shark came up from behind and started nudging one of our group with its head, not aggressive but it seemed to be begging for free meal. The diver initially thought it was another diver until he turned back and got quite a thrill to see a shark. We all later chocked it up to Lion fish hunters encouraging the local wildlife to eat the invasive pests by feeding them samples.
A couple of days later at La Francesa we had a medium to large green Moray out and feeding on Lion fish directly off the spear. He was not shy and afterward he went over to Steve Belmont and wrapped himself around Steve and did a sniff up him until he and Steve were eye to eye. For some reason Steve seems to have abnormally large eyes in situations like this, again the eel was not aggressive just abnormally friendly.
Yesterday while spotting on a Lion fish hunt at Palancar I was about 3 off of a coral head and I caught a shadow from the side and turned my head to see a medium size Nurse Shark 1 from my face and swimming hard. He went by and brushed against me and went over to a hunter with a Lion on the spear and took it off like a Marshmallow. Again; not really aggressive but very friendly where lion fish were concerned, he was not going to miss a free meal.
That evening I was talking with another diver at a bar and he told me that at La Francesa, yesterday, they had a large Green Moray come out in the open a sniff them.
Has anyone else seen any recent; 'not aggressive but abnormally friendly large critter activity associated with Lion fish hunting?
A couple of days later at La Francesa we had a medium to large green Moray out and feeding on Lion fish directly off the spear. He was not shy and afterward he went over to Steve Belmont and wrapped himself around Steve and did a sniff up him until he and Steve were eye to eye. For some reason Steve seems to have abnormally large eyes in situations like this, again the eel was not aggressive just abnormally friendly.
Yesterday while spotting on a Lion fish hunt at Palancar I was about 3 off of a coral head and I caught a shadow from the side and turned my head to see a medium size Nurse Shark 1 from my face and swimming hard. He went by and brushed against me and went over to a hunter with a Lion on the spear and took it off like a Marshmallow. Again; not really aggressive but very friendly where lion fish were concerned, he was not going to miss a free meal.
That evening I was talking with another diver at a bar and he told me that at La Francesa, yesterday, they had a large Green Moray come out in the open a sniff them.
Has anyone else seen any recent; 'not aggressive but abnormally friendly large critter activity associated with Lion fish hunting?