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[DarthSimon]

Check out this French Angel.... This was my dive in Aruba.... GoPro4 with Filters...

 

[chefjpaul]

Check out this French Angel.... This was my dive in Aruba.... GoPro4 with Filters...

Awesome..... like a stalker!

Ill be there in August

 

[DarthSimon]

Oh it was so much fun following that French. He was probably 14-16 inches full grown. Usually the French Angels dart away when they notice you. This one stood still for for a bit for video....

 

[saltyhog]

Check out this French Angel.... This was my dive in Aruba.... GoPro4 with Filters...

Great video! French angels are stunning in person. How did you like Aruba? How does it compare to other places you've been?

 

[DarthSimon]

Here’s some more eye candy...
Queen Angel...

 

[DarthSimon]

I love Aruba.... We stay at the Marriott Surf Club which has amazing rooms and great lazy river pool.
Food is great in Aruba.... Also I only dive with JADS Dive shop.... They are down by Baby Beach at South tip of Island. Best dive outfit on Island.... Baby Beach has some amazing reefs... Few years ago I had the opportunity to dive Cabez Reef which is their premiere site. They only take experienced divers out there. Extreme currents... Only 2 ways to eneter Reef... Boat which they rarely do because currents out there are to much, or you drop in on a cliff jump... They get maybe 3 or 4 days a month where the currents actually permit a boat ride, and I was lucky enough to get in.... Cliff jump was like 20 feet.... No way for me lol...

 

[saltyhog]

I filmed this French Angel last fall in Little Cayman. Once I stopped and hovered he just ignored me and went back to feeding. You can tell by comparing him to the grouper how big he was.

 

[saltyhog]

This was also in Little Cayman. I called this area the Royal Gramma nursery. There is no shortage of them anywhere I've been in the Caribbean.

 

[GWHouston]

We were at Grand Cayman last spring. Great Wall dives plus sting ray city. The dive at the USS Kitty Wake was a thrill also. Caymans rank up there with Hawaii.

 

[chefjpaul]

I desperately need a new dive camera, great videos guys!

 

[Billdogg]

Here's a few pictures from some of my trips over the years.

San Salvador Bahamas night dive
Basket Star on seafan

Reef Octopus

Sea of Cortez
Stonefish

Florida Keys

My wife!

Hawaii

And there's plenty more!

 

[GWHouston]

I thought you were being funny with The picture of your wife. The captions float between the pictures and the wife caption was below the crab. My wife also loves to dive. That’s her first choice for a vacation trip. We don’t get to go as much as we’d like to. We are both rescue divers and her tag on the car is RSQDVR

 

[grafxalien]

Just finished working on some videos from my recent trip to french polynesia and I thought some of you may enjoy. We visited tahiti, moorea, tahaa and bora bora. The marine life in this area was amazing. The snorkeling was so great that I only went on 5 scuba dives. Even the hotels in the area went out of their way for coral propagation. Taha'a had something called "bio-rock" which were metal structures with a low voltage ran through them to promote calcium deposition. Enjoy.



taha'a coral garden




taha'a bio rock




moorea snorkel




moorea dive




Bora Bora snorkel/dive






Taha'a time lapses

 

[saltyhog]

Grafxalien, that first video was awesome. Unbelievably huge school of convict tangs. What was the lone other fish traveling with the tangs?

I'll try to watch the other videos tonight.

 

[Maritimer]

That one had the look of a mustard tang ... or something similar. Blinkin' gorgeous video!

~Bruce

 

[samnaz]

anyone here gone "muck diving" in Sulewsi?

 

[saltyhog]

anyone here gone "muck diving" in Sulewsi?

Nope but definitely on the bucket list!
Lembeh Straits is the best....and not to far from Wakatobi!

Got a new macro lens for my camera I want to try out.

 

[samnaz]

Nope but definitely on the bucket list!
Lembeh Straits is the best....and not to far from Wakatobi!

Got a new macro lens for my camera I want to try out.

Lembeh is where it's at! my new tank is going to be a Lembeh themed biotope.

"Sea of Creepy Monsters" is a must watch for all divers. (watched 10x never gets old).

 

[squampton]

Awesome videos.

 

[cycled123]

Planning a trip to Hawaii in 2 years with the family. We have only been snorkeling once in Destin, Florida. We loved it have bought snorkel gear to use at our camping spot on a lake (unfortunately very poor visability) Now debating getting scuba certified before our Hawaii trip. My kids are 12 and 15. We live in Wisconsin so all our certification dives will be freshwater. After paying the money to get to and stay in Hawaii we probably will only be able to do 1 dive (maybe 2). Is it worth it? Haven't planned specifics yet of where in Hawaii we want to go (Pearl Harbor is a must though). What are some good diving or snorkeling spots?