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Old 07/04/2004, 06:57 AM
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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.

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Old 07/04/2004, 07:21 AM
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Old 07/04/2004, 07:55 AM
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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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Old 07/04/2004, 09:20 AM
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Awesome pics Greg!

Thanks for sharing...

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Old 07/04/2004, 11:46 AM
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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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Old 07/04/2004, 01:34 PM
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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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Old 07/04/2004, 01:56 PM
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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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Old 07/04/2004, 02:18 PM
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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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Old 07/04/2004, 02:31 PM
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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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Old 07/04/2004, 02:37 PM
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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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Old 07/04/2004, 02:42 PM
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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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Old 07/04/2004, 02:46 PM
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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
A typical recreational dive at that depth is about 45min to an hour. Conditions have to be right to stay down that long. If it's a little cold it can really sink in after an hour or so. When you're focused on photography or catching fish it passes way quick.
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Old 07/06/2004, 07:16 PM
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Ok, here's some more pics from this weekend....







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Old 07/06/2004, 07:20 PM
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And more pics of the cuttle/squid



















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Old 07/06/2004, 08:02 PM
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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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Old 07/06/2004, 08:27 PM
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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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Old 07/06/2004, 08:42 PM
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was wondering what kind of camera?
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Old 07/06/2004, 11:56 PM
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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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Old 07/07/2004, 04:48 AM
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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.
The Keys look great I have to put that on my list of things to do.
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Old 07/07/2004, 07:59 PM
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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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Old 07/07/2004, 08:00 PM
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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!
Me too.
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Old 07/07/2004, 08:00 PM
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was wondering what kind of camera?
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Old 07/07/2004, 08:01 PM
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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?
My website has id's for most of the SPS in the carribean if you want to check it out. If you ask for specifics I can give them, but it'll take forever to go back and Id them all in this thread.
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Old 07/07/2004, 08:04 PM
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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.
The Keys look great I have to put that on my list of things to do.
Thank you (everyone else too).

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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Old 07/07/2004, 08:05 PM
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