Call it beginner's luck...

[lhpdiver]

looks like a big guy...how big would you guess?

For some reason he didn't look that big at the time but now that I'm looking at the picture I guess those are pilot fish near his head. They look pretty small...

 

[lhpdiver]

My family lives in Boca and we were all certified in those waters. On our final ocean dive for OW, everyone in our group (except me) got to watch a huge hammerhead cruise by, while was snooping for bugs...

Instructor spoke for hours about the luck we had (except me) at such a sighting in that area, especially on a certification dive. I'm left with the story of the one that got away...

JAG

I met a guy recently who was saying in the old days dive ops used to feed a bunch of Hammerheads regularly off the pier in Deerfield.

In the past 6 months, when my wife and I dive early in the morning off our own little boat, we see stuff. 1 reef shark, 2 bulls and this guy. Guess when there's just the two of us we are the minority and they come over and check us out.

 

[jagfish]

Yup
I see one or two sharks everytime I dive out there. Big change from here in Japan. If I am lucky, once in a while I might see a strange cousin of the nurse shark...

JAG