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Amazing
Scubasteve1982
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I'd go with my AOW deep dive in the Bahamas. Somewhere south of Bimini on a Blackbeard live-aboard. We just got down to about 95' and we were hanging just over the Wall. My instructor was facing me with his back to the open ocean and 2 HUGE tuna swam behind him following the wall. I pointed, he turned and starting cheering underwater! They were enormous and beautiful. They were only about 15 feet away. You could see how powerful they were. Now when doing wall dives I always keep looking out into that blue abyss looking for anything that lives out there.
I had a camera in my hand but It never registered to take a picture. I was so amazed I forgot I had it.
I had a camera in my hand but It never registered to take a picture. I was so amazed I forgot I had it.
Jupiter31
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15 Bull Sharks at the "Hole in the Wall" near Jupiter
For the question you did not ask, while snorkeling, the whale sharks off Isla Holbox in Mexico
For the question you did not ask, while snorkeling, the whale sharks off Isla Holbox in Mexico
After a wonderful tour of the top of a reef in Little Cayman, so full of life and an incredible number of different fish, the first time looking down over the edge of Bloody Bay Wall, into a true abyss.
redrover
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On a boat group dive with the DM whizzing over a somewhat barren shallow sand bottom with occasional coral heads, where I still kept finding cool stuff and, I live here. *side rant* Most annoying was later when the DM apologized to everyone for not finding anything interesting.
I think the shallow 25' or so, bright overhead sunlight and endless vis that day helped bring out the colors, I was sure spotting a lot of small stuff like the shrimps and nudis I don't unless at my preferred near to motionless pace. So trying to keep the rest of the group in sight at least, I was zigzagging their beeline tearing myself away from coral head to next diagonal coral head.
Now I don't see much detail at a distance underwater and viewing a blue and yellow sort of cloud of nats twinkling over a coral head was quite intriguing, what the heck could that be? Upon arrival I didn't give a hoot anymore if anyone had to come looking for me. At the time I had a mini reef aquarium and I've never desired a fish so much, before or after.
The cloud of nats were mostly baby Nahacky's Pygmy Angelfish (at the time all I knew was 'That Fish' Angelfish) a vivid canary yellow, inky blue and head a blue so electric it literally sparked in the sun beams. Like nuclear fission blue, I happened to get to see that once and a color I'll never forget.
The dime size babies fluttered up, down, round and round topping out no more than a couple of inches over the rim of the nursery. A near to perfect circle hollowed out coral head the rim shaped I had to be over it to see it was hollowed out, with an overhang making the sand floor wider still.
They seemed curious about me, pausing a second right before my mask with a sweet little quizzical smile. Then (the little teases) with a flick of that near to fluorescent yellow tail in my face,:mooner: dive bomb to the bottom under the ledge, only to peek right back out.
When one went too high/too close one of the bigger authority figures would whip up and chase it back inside and around a while before flying up and giving me the stink eye. If I stuck my face in they all skedaddled faster than a Fisher's out of sight under the ledge with the bigger ones knifing in sideways it was so narrow. The second I backed up a few inches they'd reappear and resume just as charming as before.
I wanted to pet or chuckle under the chin like a kitten but couldn't see enough of anything to pet. (A good thing, not having to stifle the urge.) As long as I stayed over that line they all would take turns popping up in defiance and taunt me, 'betcha can't catch me, na na na na na' as focused on me as I was on them. Ok, not as much, I was after all helicoptering on my head with mask smack on that glass ceiling.
The friendliest cutest critters ever, felt like I was in an animated Disney movie (were Bambi and a couple of squirrels nearby too?)
And then for the cherry on top, discovered my That Fish (that anyone I asked, did not exist) is a Johnston Atoll fish and only strays to the Hawaiian Islands.
With a single specimen.
By Nahacky.
Aloha nui loa to the Waikiki Aquarium for having one (OMG, that's That Fish!) and the biologist I had dragged out to speak to me about it.
I think the shallow 25' or so, bright overhead sunlight and endless vis that day helped bring out the colors, I was sure spotting a lot of small stuff like the shrimps and nudis I don't unless at my preferred near to motionless pace. So trying to keep the rest of the group in sight at least, I was zigzagging their beeline tearing myself away from coral head to next diagonal coral head.
Now I don't see much detail at a distance underwater and viewing a blue and yellow sort of cloud of nats twinkling over a coral head was quite intriguing, what the heck could that be? Upon arrival I didn't give a hoot anymore if anyone had to come looking for me. At the time I had a mini reef aquarium and I've never desired a fish so much, before or after.
The cloud of nats were mostly baby Nahacky's Pygmy Angelfish (at the time all I knew was 'That Fish' Angelfish) a vivid canary yellow, inky blue and head a blue so electric it literally sparked in the sun beams. Like nuclear fission blue, I happened to get to see that once and a color I'll never forget.
The dime size babies fluttered up, down, round and round topping out no more than a couple of inches over the rim of the nursery. A near to perfect circle hollowed out coral head the rim shaped I had to be over it to see it was hollowed out, with an overhang making the sand floor wider still.
They seemed curious about me, pausing a second right before my mask with a sweet little quizzical smile. Then (the little teases) with a flick of that near to fluorescent yellow tail in my face,:mooner: dive bomb to the bottom under the ledge, only to peek right back out.
When one went too high/too close one of the bigger authority figures would whip up and chase it back inside and around a while before flying up and giving me the stink eye. If I stuck my face in they all skedaddled faster than a Fisher's out of sight under the ledge with the bigger ones knifing in sideways it was so narrow. The second I backed up a few inches they'd reappear and resume just as charming as before.
I wanted to pet or chuckle under the chin like a kitten but couldn't see enough of anything to pet. (A good thing, not having to stifle the urge.) As long as I stayed over that line they all would take turns popping up in defiance and taunt me, 'betcha can't catch me, na na na na na' as focused on me as I was on them. Ok, not as much, I was after all helicoptering on my head with mask smack on that glass ceiling.
The friendliest cutest critters ever, felt like I was in an animated Disney movie (were Bambi and a couple of squirrels nearby too?)
And then for the cherry on top, discovered my That Fish (that anyone I asked, did not exist) is a Johnston Atoll fish and only strays to the Hawaiian Islands.
With a single specimen.
By Nahacky.
Aloha nui loa to the Waikiki Aquarium for having one (OMG, that's That Fish!) and the biologist I had dragged out to speak to me about it.
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Originally Posted by GrimSleeper
18-foot Giant Manta cruising less than 5 feet over my head. Followed by a Thresher shark. And I'd been wondering whether I really wanted to go to the Philippines...
Malapascua. Seems to be fashionable to pan the place now, but I had a fantastic year or so working there in 2006.
Grae
Originally Posted by GrimSleeper
18-foot Giant Manta cruising less than 5 feet over my head. Followed by a Thresher shark. And I'd been wondering whether I really wanted to go to the Philippines...
Malapascua. Seems to be fashionable to pan the place now, but I had a fantastic year or so working there in 2006.
Grae
1. Photographing a cuttle fish I looked up after taking my shot while I waited for the 8080 to save the picture. As I watched the cuttle fish emulated the flash going from the dark red colour of the reef we were on to a bright, almost luminous, cream, then back to the mottled red. 
I took another picture and 2 seconds later the cuttle fish did it again. An incredible ability to mimic something it may never have encountered before, one of the few times I wished I had a video camera, but then there would have been no flash.
2. A night dive in the BVI. A strobe was lowered down before we entered the water. My buddy and I were first into the water and as I rolled over to start my descent I could see the wreck of the Rhone some 80 feet below in the flash of the strobe. I switched off my light and the descent was like flying in the dark down to the wreck in freefall with the details of the wreck getting clearer in each flash of the strobe as we descended. It was almost a pity when the rest of the group arrived and their lights broke the spell.
I took another picture and 2 seconds later the cuttle fish did it again. An incredible ability to mimic something it may never have encountered before, one of the few times I wished I had a video camera, but then there would have been no flash.
2. A night dive in the BVI. A strobe was lowered down before we entered the water. My buddy and I were first into the water and as I rolled over to start my descent I could see the wreck of the Rhone some 80 feet below in the flash of the strobe. I switched off my light and the descent was like flying in the dark down to the wreck in freefall with the details of the wreck getting clearer in each flash of the strobe as we descended. It was almost a pity when the rest of the group arrived and their lights broke the spell.
TouchO'Gray
Contributor
A couple of weeks ago, in Cozumel, my wife had just surfaced with the DM. She turned to him and asked the same question: "What's the best thing you've seen in all your dives?" He thought for a moment and said... "You."
Biggest tip I've ever given to a DM.
Best thing I've seen in the water -- besides my wife? Probably a spotted eagle ray. So graceful, so majestic.
Biggest tip I've ever given to a DM.
Best thing I've seen in the water -- besides my wife? Probably a spotted eagle ray. So graceful, so majestic.
Mind you, I've only just begun this wonderful hobby, but here's mine:
On a dive in Roatan, following the divemaster, he stopped and pointed to the roof of a short swim through. AT first I thought he wanted us to go ahead and swim through. No, he was pointing to the biggest barracuda ever. This guy was at least 5 feet long and as big around as a telephone pole!. The DM said he'd been in that same spot for about 2 weeks.
On a dive in Roatan, following the divemaster, he stopped and pointed to the roof of a short swim through. AT first I thought he wanted us to go ahead and swim through. No, he was pointing to the biggest barracuda ever. This guy was at least 5 feet long and as big around as a telephone pole!. The DM said he'd been in that same spot for about 2 weeks.
The Kraken
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My wife, Yellow Angel Fish, when she surfaced after her first dive where she really had mastered her buoyancy.
The expression on her face will be etched upon my mind forever . . . it was priceless.
the K
The expression on her face will be etched upon my mind forever . . . it was priceless.
the K
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