Marineland Photos

[pdoege]

Hey guys -

Got some photos from my last Marineland dive.

My light wasn't working, and I had never used the Canon S40 before.

Edit: Turns out I should have used the sports mode of the camera. The normal mode made it difficult to get sharp images.

Edit: Forgot to mention. The big black drums are about 6 feet long.

Enjoy!

 

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Lots of rays on the bottom. Some of them are about 2-3' wide.

 

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Need to work on my fish ID.

Took a couple of minutes to photograph this one. He kept turning away. Silly fish.

 

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The 3 turtles are really big. This one is probably around 200 pounds or so.

 

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have no idea what it is. Took me a while to sneak up on him. Finally surprised him comng over the top of the "coral".

Gotcha!

 

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The other green turtle had a remora along for the ride.

I believe that this is the larger male.

 

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The fish will occasionally hang out in big schools in the shallow areas.

I took this pick as I was swimming through one of the schools. I don't think that any of these fish are over 3 feet long. Tiny compared to the big black drums.