Thanks for all the tips and material references.
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Conditions this morning 2/24/24:
Shark Canyon
Started out cloudy but the sun came out just as we were splashing. Chilly NW winds from the cold front that came through last night, air temp in the low to mid 60s.
2-3’ seas, moderate north current, 74 water temps, 30-40’ viz (maybe pushing 50’ at points).
Lots of sharks, a few smallish Goliath Grouper, a large Cubera Snapper, 4-5 Gag Grouper (I’ve not seen so many on one dive before), school of cute younger Spadefish with a nurse Shark hiding behind them.
A few videos:
Shark Canyon
Started out cloudy but the sun came out just as we were splashing. Chilly NW winds from the cold front that came through last night, air temp in the low to mid 60s.
2-3’ seas, moderate north current, 74 water temps, 30-40’ viz (maybe pushing 50’ at points).
Lots of sharks, a few smallish Goliath Grouper, a large Cubera Snapper, 4-5 Gag Grouper (I’ve not seen so many on one dive before), school of cute younger Spadefish with a nurse Shark hiding behind them.
A few videos:
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Thank you for the conditions report. We're diving at that same area tomorrow(Mon). Great Video with lots of different sharks, Long mono on that one shark. The Jupiter migration season is just finishing up and really cool to see the mix of bulls, reefies and hearing the Lemons are still hanging near the wrecks. About how many diver's were on your boat? Getting reports of good seas but some can't get a manifest to run (even with 2 of the bigger boats dry on the hard surface still for paint)
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…turtles are the ‘Coolest’ indeed…
I'm not super good at shark ID, but that looks like a bunch of spinners to me.
Catito
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Thanks. Did the same dive Sunday…much fewer sharks. Name those sharks? Did the Shark expert say?
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I’m honestly not sure.
I think the larger was a bull and the rest were reef but I’m far from certain. I’m very weak at shark ID.
The FAU shark scientist was only on the boat on Sunday unfortunately.
HalcyonDaze
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Looks like all Caribbean reef sharks; they're pretty much a guaranteed sight on Shark Canyon nowadays.
Spinners & Bulls are the ones I see most often within 10 miles of BHB
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