Guitarfish in the Dive Park

[Teamcasa]

My lovely bride, my brother and I were in the Casino Dive Park Sunday. We were working out the kinks in my brothers gear and as such, I did not bring the video camera. But my lovely bride did bring the Sony W80 and we captured this shot of a guitarfish on the edge of the park boundary. It motored off as soon as she snapped the shutter so this is the best picture we have.

I have not seen one of these in several years.

 

[dave4868]

Looks like what we call an Atlantic torpedo ray on the east coast.

Is it a Pacific torpedo ray?

Dave C

 

[Teamcasa]

Thanks Dave!

It might just well be a Pacific Electric Ray Torpedo californica !

Paging Dr.Bill!

 

[Empty V]

Hey Dave that looks more like a torpedo ray. So how lovely is this bride of yours? lol

Billy

 

[drbill]

Dave, I was just looking at this thread when you PM'ed me. Yes, this is a Pacific electric or torpedo ray rather than a shovelnose guitarfish. Neither species is seen very frequently in the dive park, although I have heard reports from several divers that they've seen a torpedo ray there recently. Here are links to my columns on the Pacific electric ray and the shovelnose guitarfish column #18 and column #253 so others can see the difference.

Very cool. I'm currently editing the episode (#6) in my sharks and rays of SoCal series on the Pacific electric ray. In fact, I just took a break in the editing to log on to ScubaBoard. Good thing you didn't get too close to this guy as they can deliver a shock of 20 amps!

 

[Teamcasa]

Thanks Billy, she is quite lovely!

And Thank you Dr.Bill,
That will teach me from using a Franko's Fish ID chart!

 

[Kevfin]

...Good thing you didn't get too close to this guy as they can deliver a shock of 20 amps!

:11: That's definitely something that is good to know.

Dave, cool sighting,,, Your bride obviously knows how to find neat things.

 

[orangelion03]

It's a Banjofish! And an electric one at that!

Looks nothing like a willow...

 

[Mo2vation]

Chica and I saw one in the park in November. We also saw one on the Valiant the same weeked.

Very cool.

I was in the RocketMan rig... was pretty nervous in a dodgy rig being in the park with an Electric Ray...




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Ken

 

[Empty V]

ScotFiji took some crazy pics of a few he and Penny saw at Farnsworth. The one time I went to Farnsworth with Jessica (Xtreme Scuba charter) we saw a couple that were just kind of suspended in the water column in 130fsw and about 160fsw, really eerie looking.

Billy