New video I just shot of Goliath Groupers massing in Palm beach

[danvolker]

The youtube url is Trip to Palm Beach to dive with Goliath Groupers! - YouTube . This is on the wreck of the Mispah..around it, and inside it

This is one of the coolest dives you can experience, for seeing really BIG fish

If you decide you want to shoot some of this yourself, visit www.sfdj.com and the Find Boats or Find Hotel sections on the toolbar, will get you everything you need for an "expedition".


AND....

I was getting annoyed at how impossible it is to expect people to be able to watch a video in 1080P , considering connection speeds...
solutions I have as of now are two:

1. Free RealPlayer, which comes with freedownloader, catures streams and saves to your PC RealPlayer® - Best free video player for avi, flv, mpeg4 | RealPlayer
2. J River MediaCenter player, which is by far the highest quality auido of any player ( it utilizes asio, and several other large improvements), and this also can capture streams and save to a web library on your hard drive for future 1080p playback. It is not free, and costs around $60 if memory serves.... JRiver Media Center ( as of this moment, I have not figured out how to get it to capture the 1080p stream, rather than defaulting to one of the lwer quality choices....with Real player, if you start a 1080p stream,l then hit download, the download is 1080P...worst case, you get the download with the free media player, then watch with the J river player if you have a high end sound system coming out of your computer.....if not, the Real Player will be fine.

 

[deeper thoughts]

great vid

 

[danvolker]

great vid

Thanks....shooting it was a blast!

 

[aprxh]

Great Video. Did you shoot this on Sunday?

 

[danvolker]

Great Video. Did you shoot this on Sunday?

Yes. I had not been on the Mispah for quite a long time....I had totally forgotten what a cool wreck it really is....

 

[ozzydamo]

same fish type but this one is a lot bigger-
QLD Giant Grouper on BlurFix Go Pro, by ozzydamo. on Vimeo
We here call them Giant not "Goliath" grouper because we aren't a secular religious culture.
Those finger mark snappers are around 2kg/4.5lb in size...........we call them moses perch!

 

[danvolker]

same fish type but this one is a lot bigger-
QLD Giant Grouper on BlurFix Go Pro, by ozzydamo. on Vimeo
We here call them Giant not "Goliath" grouper because we aren't a secular religious culture.
Those finger mark snappers are around 2kg/4.5lb in size...........we call them moses perch!

Actually, I call them Jewfish, that's the name they had before the nonsense of political correctness invented a new name.
Good job holdingn the GoPro still, creating a smooth video.

 

[guyharrisonphoto]

Great video Dan!!

I was going to do the goliath dive on the castor with Force-E but the seas still look pretty rough. Thought I would sit it out this week and do the night dive at the bridge tomorrow. Do you have any reports on whether the vis at the bridge is decent?

 

[danvolker]

Thanks.
I dove the bridge yesterday, with about 8 foot vis at peak low tide.....even with 50mph wind, this was not that bad. At some parts of the BHB, you could say this is "top to bottom" vis

Only issue now is there is a huge period to the waves, and a big ground swell....so significant sand transport is going to occur across the mouth of the Palm Beach Inlet...the silt that goes in, will degrade the vis at the BHB....Probably worth a shot though....

 

[dumpsterDiver]

Very nice video, looks a lot better than my cheap camera.