Rig Trip out of Port Aransas - Oct 7, 2006

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Willie

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WOW! What an amazing dive trip. Capt Steve & First Mate Skip took great care of us. The weather was fantastic, seas were quite manageable, vis was very good and we saw a Whale Shark. This was the first rig trip for all but Shaggie and Rusty.

On the first dive, Shaggie, Hemlon & Rusty had splashed and were headed down deep to spear some big fish. Paul, Sharon & I splashed and while I waited for them to get ready to head down the line, I thought I would poke my head in the water and see what it looked like. The first thing I saw was a 30-35' whale shark right under the boat and about 20' down. I stuck my head back up and hollered at everyone and down we went to the rig. I spent almost all of that 38 min dive watching in awe of that beautiful and truly amazing fish.

I have posted 65 pictures here I got some video and will try to get it posted tonight. After that, I will post a more complete trip report.

Willie


I just had to come back and add one picture here. :)

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once again, great pictures Willie!

John
 
IMPRESSIVE job Willie,,,what a great trip you had!!!!!!!!! I can hardly wait for your profile/detail report....the pics are wonderful. :D I hope my schd. 10/29 rig trip is that good!
 
I posted three whale shark videos for your viewing pleasure.

Click on the image above to get there. I will post some more video tonight.

Willie
 
wet-willie:
I posted three whale shark videos for your viewing pleasure.

Click on the image above to get there. I will post some more video tonight.

Willie

Those are great!!!!!! :wink:
 
wet-willie, that is awesome!!!!! i'm jealous!!!! hey, does anyone have saturday rig trips?
 
I thought it was just me and my antique computer!
 
Hemlon:
I'm not able to see the videos yet. Is everyone else able to see them?
What OS are you using? Do you have the latest Quicktime? If you are using MacOS X or Windows XP and the latest Quicktime, it should work fine. PM me if you need help.

Willie
 
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