Amazz
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This little lemon shark gave me a hard time. Shortly after I took this photo, it circled me, I ascended about 10 ft. and it darted up after me. I bumped it on the head with my camera and it backed down.
But I'm used to being in the water with much bigger lemon sharks. They just veer away from you if you get in their path. They could easily kick my butt but don't seem to want to. Love is in the air and the attraction is other lemons.
Here is a big one that just veered away as I stood my ground snapping photos.
If you dive Jupiter and the conditions are clear, you must dive the Tunnels. We have there what I call "special needs" sharks. I don't know what they are doing, but those little reefies just sit under the ledge and don't budge no matter how close you get to them. Tunnels is probably my favorite dive in Jupiter. It's ugly, but you never know what you are going to see.
Here is a Youtube video of a sleeping sandbar shark on the deep 120 ft. ledge. I shot this about a year ago.
YouTube - sleeping sandbar shark in Jupiter
This is a mola mola video from my very last Jupiter dive one month ago. It's my first Mola in about 1500 dives. I giggled for hours after this one.
YouTube - MVI 1576
Alas, I am in week 3 of my 3 months of being dry. I had a PFO closed three weeks ago and cannot dive until October 16-ISH.
It's KILLING me not diving. I was getting too much DCS and felt it was time to get it checked out, then repaired. I haven't been dry this long since back to back Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne a few years ago. Those little bitches. Contact me when you come to Jupiter. I know these reefs better than the back of my hand.
To answer your question about diving down the Florida coast. Hmmn, I don't know. Some people come and dive Jupiter and don't care for it at all. They really like the brighter colors found in the Keys. I think Boynton Beach is really nice for that too. I rarely leave Jupiter because it's my FAVORITE place to dive. You never know what you are going to see and there is a lot of potential for something big, especially certain times of the year. I prefer wide angle because I don't have a lot of patience with macro in a current. There is usually so much going on in Jupiter with the fishlife that I don't want to have my head buried in the reef looking for little stuff. But you could be unlucky and arrive for some really weird conditions. We sometimes (rarely) get a weird eddy from the Gulf Stream causing a south current and less than 20 feet of visibility. Sometimes thermoclines arrive in the summer dropping the bottom temp to the mid 60s. Generally, the best diving is in the fall and early winter as long as the winds aren't too strong. Visibility averages at least 70 ft. and the currents aren't as strong as in the summer.
But I'm used to being in the water with much bigger lemon sharks. They just veer away from you if you get in their path. They could easily kick my butt but don't seem to want to. Love is in the air and the attraction is other lemons.
Here is a big one that just veered away as I stood my ground snapping photos.
If you dive Jupiter and the conditions are clear, you must dive the Tunnels. We have there what I call "special needs" sharks. I don't know what they are doing, but those little reefies just sit under the ledge and don't budge no matter how close you get to them. Tunnels is probably my favorite dive in Jupiter. It's ugly, but you never know what you are going to see.
Here is a Youtube video of a sleeping sandbar shark on the deep 120 ft. ledge. I shot this about a year ago.
YouTube - sleeping sandbar shark in Jupiter
This is a mola mola video from my very last Jupiter dive one month ago. It's my first Mola in about 1500 dives. I giggled for hours after this one.
YouTube - MVI 1576
Alas, I am in week 3 of my 3 months of being dry. I had a PFO closed three weeks ago and cannot dive until October 16-ISH.
It's KILLING me not diving. I was getting too much DCS and felt it was time to get it checked out, then repaired. I haven't been dry this long since back to back Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne a few years ago. Those little bitches. Contact me when you come to Jupiter. I know these reefs better than the back of my hand.To answer your question about diving down the Florida coast. Hmmn, I don't know. Some people come and dive Jupiter and don't care for it at all. They really like the brighter colors found in the Keys. I think Boynton Beach is really nice for that too. I rarely leave Jupiter because it's my FAVORITE place to dive. You never know what you are going to see and there is a lot of potential for something big, especially certain times of the year. I prefer wide angle because I don't have a lot of patience with macro in a current. There is usually so much going on in Jupiter with the fishlife that I don't want to have my head buried in the reef looking for little stuff. But you could be unlucky and arrive for some really weird conditions. We sometimes (rarely) get a weird eddy from the Gulf Stream causing a south current and less than 20 feet of visibility. Sometimes thermoclines arrive in the summer dropping the bottom temp to the mid 60s. Generally, the best diving is in the fall and early winter as long as the winds aren't too strong. Visibility averages at least 70 ft. and the currents aren't as strong as in the summer.
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