What's your "thing?"

[Divin'Papaw]

Sea turtles. I never get tired of seeing these amazing animals. Where I dive the most (Palm Beach County FL) we regularly see loggerhead, hawksbill and greens depending upon the time of year. We also have leatherback and kemp's ridley in the area but I've not been lucky enough to see either yet. That only leaves two species of sea turtles we don't get in South FL ... olive ridley and flatback.

It's not uncommon during nesting season to hit the trifecta on a dive in Palm Beach County and see a loggerhead, green, and hawksbill all on the same dive.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

Photographing any animal I can isolate from the background. We don't get great visibility often where I dive, so I tend to shoot macro most dives. On the rare wide angle dives, we usually dive wrecks, pipes, or with Giant Sea Bass.

 

[RyanT]

Max, your photos always inspire!

 

[Belzelbub]

For me wrecks are almost only interesting for the critters hanging out there, and caverns/caves are amazing and beautiful but still boring to me after 5 minutes.

I never really thought of it exactly like that, but it’s the same for me. Saltwater dives can keep my interest in many different environments provided there is a lot of fauna moving about. I did a dive on a nice location recently, but it had been impacted heavily by Red Tide. So that dive was pretty short.

Freshwater dives around here just don’t have the variety, so I get bored quickly.

 

[mcohen1021]

Mermaids... If my wife would only put that freakin tail on for diving, we'd be all set....

 

[Marie13]

For those of you wondering about freshwater wrecks, look up the Sandusky on YT. She was a wooden barque (she was rigged as a barque, not a schooner), built in 1848 and sank in the Straits of Mackinac (between Michigan’s two peninsulas) in the late 1850s. She had a tiller, not a wheel, for the rudder. Awesome dive, just sitting upright on the bottom.

 

[wetb4igetinthewater]

Just being underwater.

 

[GreggS]

For those of you wondering about freshwater wrecks, look up the Sandusky on YT. She was a wooden barque (she was rigged as a barque, not a schooner), built in 1848 and sank in the Straits of Mackinac (between Michigan’s two peninsulas) in the late 1850s. She had a tiller, not a wheel, for the rudder. Awesome dive, just sitting upright on the bottom.

Wow. Amazing video. Stunning how much of it is still in a decent state of preservation after more than 160 years.

Thanks for sharing, Marie.

 

[Marie13]

Wow. Amazing video. Stunning how much of it is still in a decent state of preservation after more than 160 years.

Thanks for sharing, Marie.

You’re welcome. And, that in a nutshell, is why I am such a Great Lakes wreck freak. @Tracy prefers the steel ones as he likes to get inside.

 

[MaxBottomtime]

My favorite dive of all time was when I found the UB88. I had never seen so many fish at one time. It is still sitting upright after 101 years in salt water.