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Whoa!! What a wonderful find!! I can imagine how excited you were. Let us know where to see the movie footage please.
Cheri
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Awesome!!!
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Nice Blue Spotted Coronet I've only seen a couple of them, and one was up here
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Awesome pics Greg!
Thanks for sharing... Ryan
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Nice pics. I'm impressed you were able to get so close to them. During a night dive in Cozumel, I had one swim up and ink me.
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Yeah, considering something had tried to take a big chunk out of him, I'm surprised he let me get so close. All the dive photography has helped me get my breathing pretty controlled so that I can keep the bubbles from scaring my subjects. He let me get within about 2 arm lengths away. The other one let me get close once or twice, but he pretty consistently let me get close. I knew there were "squid" on the reefs here, but I thought they were really squid. I don't consider those squid personally....
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greg- what is your training level? and how many hours do you have underwater? several hundred? several thousand? =Þ
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My recreational certification is rescue diver. I also was previously approved as a scientific diver through the florida aquarium, although that's a less impressive than it sounds. It really just means I spent the time to go through the paperwork and learn how to dive in a fish tank without breaking or killing anything and scrub algae from their half million gallon aquarium on a weekly basis.
I have about 50 hours aquarium diving and I'm honestly not sure about reef diving. I stopped keeping a log at about 50 hours and I haven't even uploaded my dive computer to my desktop in years. I would make a rough guess somewhere between 2 and 4 hundred hours. Yesterday was a record breaker for me for bottom time on a single dive. Our first dive was 110 minutes bottom time. The second was probably around the same (I didn't look at the elapsed time when we came up) as I had about 800 lbs left on it as well and we were at about the same depth (around 15 ft max). We were so shallow that no-decomp times aren't an issue, so air is really the only thing I monitor during the dive.
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niiice record.. i am hoping to get my rescue this next year or two......if i can find the $$ inbetween my hobby expenses i should really try to do that glass cleaning deal with one of the local aquariums... it owudl at least be underwater time, around some wildlife.... i am assuming you at least come out even finance wise?- they pay for air or equipt? and do you hooka, or scuba in the tanks?
.... breath control to me is everything.... wana take one of the rebreather units on a run sometime..... |
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Excellent pictures Greg. I know nothing about diving, but WOW, 110 minutes underwater. I don't think I have ever stayed in a pool for that long. LOL
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Most public aquariums mandate that you use their equipment for a variety of reasons. (We're veering off topic bady now. ) We use hooka for the big tanks and remote scuba tanks for the smaller tanks.
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Ok, here's some more pics from this weekend....
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And more pics of the cuttle/squid
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dang you - you make me.. home sick. teh blue background squid and the xmas worms are niiice
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these pics are just flat out amazing......they make me want to move to the ocean......and im not talking about the beach....i want to live down there with this stuff!
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was wondering what kind of camera?
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Beautifull stuff there greg! Absolutly beautifull! Would you be able to tell me what species some of those sps corals were?
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Beautiful pics. I had no idea that the Florida Keys were that well kept. I am a Scuba diver with about 10 years experience that dove in the Bahamas a few years ago and to say the least I was totally disapointed in how terrible everything looked. Dead corals, very few small fish, only big ones. I have spent time diving in Panama, Australia and 2 months in the Philipines.
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The keys are not nearly as bad off as the nay-sayers try to make you believe. In fact, I don't think there's anything wrong with them at all, but it's easier to convince people there is a problem than to convince them that there isn't I guess. Of course, I'm not an expert in such matter. I only go by what I observe.
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what is your site?
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