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[saltyhog]

A few pictures from today.

A small school of Atlantic Blue Tangs.


A small gorgonion growing out of the center of a brain coral.

 

[saltyhog]

Had a little bit of sunshine today.

View from the condo.


Yellow vase sponges


See, even mother nature gets bubble algae.


Unusual "bubble tip" condy anemone.


Not sure what was going on on top of this coral head. I can identify a bluehead wrasse, a yellow head wrasse, a parrot fish, a blue reef chromis and two other fish I can't ID.

Mr. Whiskers

 

[esther]

Had a little bit of sunshine today.

View from the condo.


Yellow vase sponges


See, even mother nature gets bubble algae.


Unusual "bubble tip" condy anemone.


Not sure what was going on on top of this coral head. I can identify a bluehead wrasse, a yellow head wrasse, a parrot fish, a blue reef chromis and two other fish I can't ID.

Mr. Whiskers

Sooooooooooooooooooooooooo jealous.

 

[saltyhog]

A short video from our night dive a little while ago. Forgive the unsteadiness, the current was ripping tonight.

 

[saltyhog]

And a few stills.

Nice purple tip condy

A pair a couple of rocks over.

Monster cucumber.

Puffer.

 

[Paul B]

This was our dive boat in Tahiti.

 

[EmilyXLC]

All of these pictures are KILLING ME. Does anyone have any leads on great scuba instructors in central Florida?

 

[MikeYasin]

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Last time out, off the west side of Maui in January. Spotted this guy.... finally downloaded and edited down. Sorry about the shakes, my first time using a new mount for the GoPro.

 

[Billdogg]

Nice! The last octopus I had the pleasure of meeting was on a night dive in Bonaire.

 

[GregDaKeg]

It's my experience that a lot of reefers are also divers. Let's use this thread as place to share our love for diving, pictures from our dives, gear recommendations and reviews of great places to dive!

Here's a few pictures from my most recent trip to Little Cayman.




We all know what this guy is.

Looks aswome! My wife and I are not certified for diving. We did go to Jamaica and snorkeled 2-3 times each day. We also did the Snuba and that was great! Just walking around the tide pools was enough for me.

 

[GregDaKeg]

Looks aswome! My wife and I are not certified for diving. We did go to Jamaica and snorkeled 2-3 times each day. We also did the Snuba and that was great! Just walking around the tide pools was enough for me.

 

[saltyhog]

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Last time out, off the west side of Maui in January. Spotted this guy.... finally downloaded and edited down. Sorry about the shakes, my first time using a new mount for the GoPro.

Cool! We saw one that looked like that when we were diving in Kona....I think it was a dive site called Rabbi's Arch.

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[MikeYasin]

Cool! We saw one that looked like that when we were diving in Kona....I think it was a dive site called Rabbi's Arch.

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Awesome!

 

[saltyhog]

Haven't updated this thread in a long time. Come on divers let's see some pictures/videos.

From this morning in Cozumel. Eagle rays, beautiful angel fish.

 

[Acrofiend]

Snorkeling in Hanauma Bay, Hawaii. Not much coral but a lot of colorful fish.

 

[saltyhog]

A few clips from today. Some interesting dominance behavior in the first part of the clip. I love the Scrawled Cowfish toward the end that changes colors. As you can see the current was rippin' today.

 

[saltyhog]

A short compilation of clips from our morning dives in Cozumel today. As usual lots of current. My favorite is the Queen Angel that wants to play peek-a-boo.

 

[saltyhog]

From todays dives in Cozumel.

 

[saltyhog]

Yesterday's dives started great with a very friendly Hawksbill turtle that demanded a close up.

 

[pochaxoo]

I have been diving all week in Cozumel, but today's rain storm is so bad there there no way anyone was going diving. Thinking to my dives thus far this week I have been amazed about how much of the "aquascape" is occupied by sponges. Some of the most colorful parts of the reef from massive Orange finger sponges, Green sponges, light purple barrel sponge, darker purple sponge, crazy yellow and green sponge tubes. Too bad these are so hard to keep in a confined system. I have had them in my previous tanks from live rock but the usual encrusters. i will see if I can upload some pictures of how much of the scape is sponge focused. i will also say this explains why the French Angelfish are so huge here. They must snack on sponge all day.

Hopefully the rain will ease up tonight and I will be back to diving tomorrow.