Nice point Meghunter. I like the serrations.
Herb. I enjoyed your herbuwshots. Given two days of diving the Cooper, you will definitely come away with something. I will be fossiling the Cooper on Saturday the 9th. I have been fossiling twice this season. The first trip (to Venice FL) produced nothing. The second trip (to the Edisto river) I scored a large near perfect Mastodon tooth, a 4" quality Megalodon tooth, and a couple of perfect Angustiden teeth.
The first trip (offshore Venice) we had a dozen divers spend probably 36hrs searching the bottom finding nothing that amounted to jack squat. The only exception was one small Meg. My perception of fossiling Venice changed significantly this year. Unfortunately the weekend I went to Venice I fell into a motley crew being taken to the same old worn out spots. The "pretend" fossiling and a dive store owner too busy with other things to recognize me as potentially his largest sale in weeks, opened my mind to "whats goin on in Venice".
I did try a new boat while there and would use him again. His boat is called the Big Flat Top. Not only is it literally a good dive platform, the man is actively looking for virgin sites. He has not fallen into the classic "can't afford the fuel to do anything differently" train of thought yet. The "I need to run to the closest site and get back quickly" mentality. Until he does, I think he will venture off the well beaten path even if he has a fuel surcharge for those hunting virgin territory.
When I dive virgin sites I make good finds. Other than that it is a waste of time and money for me personally. The argument I get on this is that "there are no more virgin sites". I don't know if the people saying this realize how ludicrous they sound.