Dive report for Destin - Oct 10 and 11

[Puffer Fish]

Don't have time to do the whole report (will finish tomorrow), but here is a small video of White Hall reef:

http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/data/500/MVI_2479.avi

Water is starting to cool down... was 77F on the bottom, and there are some interesting jellies floating about...but was a great weekend... more pictures to come.

 

[YiNYaNg]

Where's this spot at? Mind marking it on a map and post it for me or the coordinates?

 

[Puffer Fish]

Where's this spot at? Mind marking it on a map and post it for me or the coordinates?

Sorry, not much help in that regard...just a passenger on the Sea Cobra. Well, except to say that it is the farthest out of any of the reefs, and on the left side of the pass (versus most that are on the right side of the pass).

 

[Puffer Fish]

Moon jellies are still everywhere, but this weekend we saw several stinging Cauliflower ... some of which were huge...One, instead of having tenticles trailing behind it, had them out to the side.. must have covered a 20 ft circle...what I did not know at the time is that the stings from them can require medical attention......glad I did not go and take pictures close up.

 

[Puffer Fish]

Based on a comment from our Captain on Sat., I decided to take as many eye images as I could... so please excuse the tight close up's of their heads....but before thoses...

It's a still life, don't do many, but thought the color was nice:

 

[OysterBoot74]

Those are great pics. THX for sharing.

 

[Hetland]

this weekend we saw several stinging Cauliflower ... some of which were huge...One, instead of having tenticles trailing behind it, had them out to the side.. must have covered a 20 ft circle...what I did not know at the time is that the stings from them can require medical attention.

I took a hit in the neck from something bad this Saturday in Panama City. I doused it with vinegar, and that deactivated the sting, but I still have an angry red welt. I thought when it hit me it may have been a man-o-war because it hurt a good bit more than a sea nettle. Perhaps I took a stray strand from a Cauliflower (I never saw a jelly close enough to sting me).

Either way, I can't recommend the experience.

 

[captain]

Where's this spot at? Mind marking it on a map and post it for me or the coordinates?

A few hundered yards NNE of the Liberty ship Thomas Hayward

 

[OysterBoot74]

Is it also called Anchor Rock Reef?

 

[Puffer Fish]

I took a hit in the neck from something bad this Saturday in Panama City. I doused it with vinegar, and that deactivated the sting, but I still have an angry red welt. I thought when it hit me it may have been a man-o-war because it hurt a good bit more than a sea nettle. Perhaps I took a stray strand from a Cauliflower (I never saw a jelly close enough to sting me).

Either way, I can't recommend the experience.

That does not sound like fun...I have never seen that jelly fish in the northern gulf, and understand it is actually worse than a PMOW ....hard as that is to believe.

Several tenticles broke off when they hooked on the anchor line, so a stray chunk would seem to be fairly easy to run into without seeing it.