Look down below before filming , good habit to prevent a sting ray tag.

[Jim Lapenta]

Stonefish, scorpion fish. To me they are the same thing. Ugly with a nasty spine. That's all I care about. It's also why I don't teach Fish ID. Subject doesn't matter enough to me to learn what it would take to put a good class on. So I refer people to Amazon to get a book or to a marine biologist I know.

 

[Z Gear]

Oh come ON! This is ridiculous! I want to see the raw video. It must be awesome! You know I would post it. the audio might be the best part.

Also, I don't think there are any stone fish in Florida.. Now scorpionfish... they are all over the wrecks..

I have not even looked at the footage I took that day. Vis was not the greatest I remember but I will see if I can check out my sd cards tomorrow and post what ever I have. I will have watch the whole video to find out the part where I got stung.

I am sorry but I might find it very difficult to post the audio if I yelped out some ridiculous type of girlish scream, apologized in advance.

 

[Max Speed]

Stonefish, scorpion fish. To me they are the same thing. Ugly with a nasty spine. That's all I care about. It's also why I don't teach Fish ID. Subject doesn't matter enough to me to learn what it would take to put a good class on. So I refer people to Amazon to get a book or to a marine biologist I know.

"The human name doesn't mean s**t to a tree."- Grace Slick

 

[drbill]

"A fish by any other name would still know the sea" - Eluard

However, as a marine biologist it does help to know the scientific name when communicating with other scientists. If I'm just talking with the fish underwater, I use their real names.. Harry, Ethel, Mark and Mary.

I do tend to worry more about scorpionfish as they are often well camouflaged against the reef during the day (although usually quite visible in my video lights at night)

 

[Z Gear]

I have not even looked at the footage I took that day. Vis was not the greatest I remember but I will see if I can check out my sd cards tomorrow and post what ever I have. I will have watch the whole video to find out the part where I got stung.

I am sorry but I might find it very difficult to post the audio if I yelped out some ridiculous type of girlish scream, apologized in advance.

Ok you asked for it here is the footage of the infamous sting ray tag. I thought I got while I was filming the calico bass but I guess that wasn't it. In fact it happened while I was filming my dive buddys checking out something on the reef. Need to take some memory supplements I guess. Anyway here is the footage, thank goodness I didn't scream out like a girl when I got hit. You will have to turn up the volume to here painful sound effects. I think I blurted out some interesting words through the reg as well.
[video=youtube;vVYTEpxHg6Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVYTEpxHg6Y&feature=youtube_gdata[/video]