The Boynton Dive Chronicles (new and improved)

[deepstops]

Here are my pictures from Sunday's dive. I'll post a link to the ones from Monday in a few days.

Boynton Beach May 24, 2009 Photo Gallery by Martin Schiff at pbase.com

-- Martin

Martin,

Excellent pics, I especially like the turtle shots

This link will take everyone right into the slideshow: Boynton Beach May 24, 2009 Photo Gallery by Martin Schiff at pbase.com

 

[mschiff]

Martin,

Really great pics, it was good to meet you and your wife Monday!

Joe

Thanks Joe, it was nice meeting you and your wife for us as well. Enjoyed diving with you.

-- Martin

 

[mschiff]

Here are the rest of my pictures from Monday's diving with Kevin.

There are a couple of you and your wife, Joe.

Boynton Beach May 25, 2009 Photo Gallery by Martin Schiff at pbase.com

-- Martin

 

[fisheyeview]

Here are the rest of my pictures from Monday's diving with Kevin.

There are a couple of you and your wife, Joe.

Boynton Beach May 25, 2009 Photo Gallery by Martin Schiff at pbase.com

-- Martin

Nice images Martin. From the looks of it I am guessing that one of the dives was Black Condo.

 

[Scubakevdm]

Hey! Thank you guys for coming! It's nice to have great customers! I'll see if I can throw a couple of pics up later on.

 

[mschiff]

Nice images Martin. From the looks of it I am guessing that one of the dives was Black Condo.

Indeed it was, on the first day.

-- Martin

 

[fisheyeview]

Black Condo is the only site that I regualarly see Coronet fish.

 

[mschiff]

I believe the cornet fish were on the second day, second dive. So that would not have been black condo. We started to go there, but there was another group there already, so we went north.

-- Martin

 

[Scubakevdm]

Okay! We had some pretty good diving over the holiday weekend, even though it got a bit spicy out there from time to time. I was thinking that all of the rain we were getting was going to muck up the vis a bit, but we did okay... about 40 feet on Friday and 60 or so on Saturday and Sunday, then back down to about 50 on Monday. There was a layer of green on top, but underneath it was okay. The water has remained near 80 degrees, and we had gentle to moderate north currents on all of our dives.

I've got my pictures all in an uproar somehow, and can't remember which ones were from which day, and on top of that, I'm using a 32" LCD TV for a monitor, and all of my pictures look a bit weird to me, but they looked okay on the camera so I'm going to go ahead and post them anyway.

This was pretty typical.... very dark due to the cloud cover, but lots of fish.

Divematt has a good eye, and found this pair of batfish. I can tell by the expressions on their faces that they did not appreciate the interruption.

Here's Divematt again. He seems to have captured the attention of a loggerhead. There were lots of turtles, mostly loggerheads but some hawksbills and greens too.

This loggerhead had a tethered transmitter attached at the very back of it's shell. I poked around a bit to see if I could figure out who this turtle was, and who was tracking it, but all of the projects I found on the internet were using glued on transmitters. If anyone can figure out who's turtle this is, I would love to send them this picture of their turtle in action.

This big male hawksbill is not a turtle I see on a regular basis like the three locals. He was snoozing pretty hard.

I think Mschiff has the reciprocal of this shot in his album. Thanks Martin!

Here's jdavissrusa cruising above the ledge.

We found the school of creole wrasses to end all schools on one of the dives.

 

[fisheyeview]

Nice shots Kev. They make me wish I was out there instead of in the office today.