seadoggirl
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Today was an inshore trip. The first dive was to the Pete's Tide. We had very little current and around 40 foot vis. The water is around 84 degrees. We had a number of students (Mike Day's MBT) on the boat and they were really solid divers. I saw a ton of frog fish of course and a pretty good size cowrie. I also noticed a memorial inside the wheel house but I didn't go in and read it. Anybody know anything about that? The other divers saw a shark but I didn't. I was under the bow playing with flounder. Mike Day was next to me and a flounder jumped up right in front of him. I don't mind telling you - he screamed like a twelve year old girl!
The second dive was on the Russian Freighter. The current was a little stronger and the vis was a little better. I immediately saw a ton of fish, three Octopus in separate locations and lots of tropicals. I was taking a picture of a grouper in the sand that was acting strange when about 30 feet in front of me, I see a shark. I dropped to my knees in the sand a sat there for a moment - thinking "Camera or knife". I can't swear to it but I thought I saw lines on it's side - "Tiger shark" I said to myself. It was coming right at me. I didn't have fish, so I got real still. It got to about 15 feet from me and other diver behind me came over. When the massive man eating Tiger Shark saw the other diver, he swam away. Everybody that saw it agreed that it was about 8-10 feet long but nobody else saw what kind of shark it was. My story is that it was a Tiger and I'm sticking to that.
I really wish I could have gotten it a few feet closer for a picture.
The second dive was on the Russian Freighter. The current was a little stronger and the vis was a little better. I immediately saw a ton of fish, three Octopus in separate locations and lots of tropicals. I was taking a picture of a grouper in the sand that was acting strange when about 30 feet in front of me, I see a shark. I dropped to my knees in the sand a sat there for a moment - thinking "Camera or knife". I can't swear to it but I thought I saw lines on it's side - "Tiger shark" I said to myself. It was coming right at me. I didn't have fish, so I got real still. It got to about 15 feet from me and other diver behind me came over. When the massive man eating Tiger Shark saw the other diver, he swam away. Everybody that saw it agreed that it was about 8-10 feet long but nobody else saw what kind of shark it was. My story is that it was a Tiger and I'm sticking to that.
I really wish I could have gotten it a few feet closer for a picture.