Venice Over Hunted?

[Steve Thacker]

The tooth Pete found - pictured above - is over 5 1/2 inches long and almost 4 inches wide. Just the small piece of enamel missing on the display side of the tooth keeps it from being flawless. I have never found one that big or nice. Maybe it is because I am on the boat all the time. The nicest tooth recovered from our boat was straight off the the three condos about 5 years ago. It was a flawless 6 1/8 incher and the fellow that found it was on his first saltwater dive. His scuba regulator (Dacor Olympic) was from the late 60's and I offerred him a $1000 in brand new dive gear for the tooth. He was smart - he kept the tooth. Two killer teeth found this past February can be found on youtube - just type in "shark tooth diving" and you will see "Diver Dan" actually recording a video of him recovering the teeth. You will also see my mate Marie doing some free diving.

 

[dbshark94]

I'm afraid you're 15 years too late...

 

[Walter]

15 years too late for what? Fossilling on the beach?

 

[krawdady]

So this is a really old thread that but I wonder if we could resurrect it. I used to be a very active Venice diver and was lucky enough to find a lot of nice teeth. I haven't been out in awhile and I'm wondering if people have noticed a difference in the quality/number of teeth that have been found n the last 2 or 3 years. Any opinions?