Big Bend Brian
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Took a trip with the family and a friend to Venice Florida to do a two tank shark toothing dive. Before kids my wife & I loved doing beach dives looking for sharks teeth. We always did well in shark tooth numbers but never found the elusive large Meg tooth.
Boat Dive: We did two boat dives with the dive company Florida West SCUBA in 28 - 30 feet of water in the area called the Boneyard. The U/W conditions were pleasant with 82 ˚F water but with a poor 6 - 8 foot murky visibility ut enough viz to look for teeth however.
Nice morning
Poor U/W viz
We only found a couple of small teeth in our two dives (82 minutes each bottom time) which was a bit disappointing but I did manage to find my largest Meg tooth yet! In light of that and diving with my family it was a successful couple of dives. There were to my knowledge two other good sized meg teeth and a few partials picked up with a lot of bone material too (11 divers). Florida West SCUBA did a great job and was a fine company to dive with. Id dive with them again.
Beach Dive: In years past my wife & I always did well diving for shark teeth off the beach in 18 feet of water so my buddy and I did a beach dive off the Venice Service Park beach. We geared up & finned out 300 yards on the surface then dropped down to 18 feet of water. Viz was worse than off the dive boat but continuing to fin U/W west we hit an inshore reef in 22 feet, the viz improved to 6 -8 feet, and we started finding the characteristic black fossilized material in which you find sharks teeth. The pickings here were good but just like everywhere else there was a thin layer of sediment on everything.
95% of the teeth pictured below were from the beach dive.
Combination of Sand shark, Bull, Lemon, one Meg tooth (largest) and stingray mouth plates and barbs.
Brian
Boat Dive: We did two boat dives with the dive company Florida West SCUBA in 28 - 30 feet of water in the area called the Boneyard. The U/W conditions were pleasant with 82 ˚F water but with a poor 6 - 8 foot murky visibility ut enough viz to look for teeth however.
Nice morning
Poor U/W viz
We only found a couple of small teeth in our two dives (82 minutes each bottom time) which was a bit disappointing but I did manage to find my largest Meg tooth yet! In light of that and diving with my family it was a successful couple of dives. There were to my knowledge two other good sized meg teeth and a few partials picked up with a lot of bone material too (11 divers). Florida West SCUBA did a great job and was a fine company to dive with. Id dive with them again.
Beach Dive: In years past my wife & I always did well diving for shark teeth off the beach in 18 feet of water so my buddy and I did a beach dive off the Venice Service Park beach. We geared up & finned out 300 yards on the surface then dropped down to 18 feet of water. Viz was worse than off the dive boat but continuing to fin U/W west we hit an inshore reef in 22 feet, the viz improved to 6 -8 feet, and we started finding the characteristic black fossilized material in which you find sharks teeth. The pickings here were good but just like everywhere else there was a thin layer of sediment on everything.
95% of the teeth pictured below were from the beach dive.
Combination of Sand shark, Bull, Lemon, one Meg tooth (largest) and stingray mouth plates and barbs.
Brian
