Dream Shark tooth..........

[iamsharky]

I would love to hear any stories of a dream shark tooth you have pursued.....and then you found it. Details of how you found it would be great, sort of a fossil Harlequin romance novel so to speak. Size does not matter, no really... just a story of a tooth you always dreamed of finding and then you found it!! Happy Hunting!!

 

[COWSskateGOOD]

In Venice there is a Capt who is known for placing fake ceramic sharks teeth, some underwater, some hanging on posts near the frequented beaches. I had read about him and vowed one day I would find one. I was gearing up in front of Alhambra and I saw a Red/White painted dive flag style fake 8inch ceramic Meg hanging on the sign. My heart skipped a beat as I ran to it and saw it placed there. My Dad was with me and told me not to touch it, I looked at the back to see if it was numbered like I had heard he typically did. Not seeing the number I assumed it to be possibly someone else's tooth and not what I was looking for. I left that tooth......

I regret that decision to this day and the next time I see one it will be mine, my Dad was not aware of the story behind the teeth.

Not quite a real tooth story, but I have yet to find a real meg in the water yet. As soon as I have I will post that story because I am sure it will be as dramatic Haha

 

[iamsharky]

Good luck on that first Meg!! You are definately in the right place. I have read the post about those ceramic teeth as well and would like to add one to my collection someday...

 

[AeroMike]

So this guy goes around and just places ceramic teeth anywhere? and people can take them as if they are like a GEO cache find? Hmmmmmmmm, interesting. Gives me an idea.

 

[Orsk]

Ok here's my little story for ya.

I'm down in Tampa, FL for a business trip, and I want to do some diving on my weekends. I read about shark tooth diving in Vienna, FL and head that way. Well I dive on Friday finding a handful of teeth, but no big Megalodons. Saturday I go back and make three dives getting a couple hundred teeth. STILL no big ones. On Sunday, my last day to dive before flight, I head out for 3 dives. On the first two it's the same with a couple hundred small teeth. The last dive was looking the same way. I was at 18ft and about 500yds offshore with 700psi left in my tank on my way back in. I was just swimming along staying on the bottom to keep out of the waves when I swim over a 4ft chunk of coral. Out of the corner of my eye I see the triangle shape and have to stop myself and spin around. I ended up silting the area out so I had to wait. Then I saw it again. My first Megalodon tooth that's about 2 1/2 in long. I was so happy that I finally found one. Last dive, last day, last part of my tank.

 

[Jerry L]

Orsk - I live in the Tampa area and dive Venice alot.. you had the 700 psi curse, as that is usually when you hit the good spots... drop a line when you come back in the area and we can hit Venice..

 

[Shot a man in Reno...]

I had dove on the NC coast fossil ledge over a dozen times, having found a 2 inch great white tooth as my biggest trophy. Until 2 months ago, when a brought up a couple of 3 inch Meg teeth.

But I still hadn't found the big one, the "I want to put it on a gold chain and wear it like a Flavor Flav clock" tooth.

A couple of weeks ago, on a Friday dive I was down at 105ft, had run my reel out to ~150 ft and had been searching through rubble piles all the way out. I was down to 2000 PSI and thinking about turning around and turned to search one last rubble pile. There, on the edge of the small (~3ft round) pile was a triangle shape, as I reached for it I thought, probably another coral/rock/shell pretending to be a tooth. I grabbed it and flipped it over and DAMN, a 5.5 inch tooth. I got my buddy's attention, we high-fived, I put tooth in bag and we turned to scour our way back to the anchor line.



It was the only tooth I found that day, but definitely one to remember.

 

[iamsharky]

Awesome tooth!! I want to do that ledge dive sometime........

 

[tabachuk]

All i want to find is a decent Makoi live an hour from Venice and plan on goingdiving in two days hoping to find a decent sized Mako,i live on Indian rocks beach and find hundreds of teeth a day some good size even a broken Meg but mostly all bull and tiger. Any one want to help with my Mako cause let me know,

 

[2TH DIVR]

I want to find this one's bigger brother, around 6"