Right place, right time ...

[MXGratefulDiver]

it's not a PETA approved story though..

My friend in the BVI (an old time underwater producer) was riding a marlin with a scuba tank on his back, rodeo-style to document.... what an a-hole macho guy he was, I guess, and the Tigers showed up to teach him some humility about the food chain. I have the video because I was there and he gave it me as a souvenir, but I have never been able to post any video for some reason. The sharks get very aggressive and all you can see is Armando back kicking (not the DIR method, somewhat faster and on his back) and his fin tips doing a rapid back pedal.

Let's just say it made my week.

He needn't have worried ... sharks don't go after scuba divers. They don't like the tanks ... makes 'em fart ... :11:

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[Cave Diver]

Here's an octopus getting ready to eat a conch..........

Not to rain on your photo parade, but looking at that pic it appears as if there is a hermit crab, not a conch, inside that shell.

Still a very cool pic though!

 

[Phenol]

This group of whitetip reef sharks had found something worth investigating in the rubble above Blue Corner. A Napoleon wrasse and a big black jack also poked their noses in there from time to time.

Please forgive the backscatter...

 

[Cacia]

it appears as if there is a hermit crab, not a conch, inside that shell.

how can you tell? Are you seeing antennae?

Blue Corner.

...always a lot of action , huh? like a fireworks finale everywhere you look.

 

[pakman]

This group of whitetip reef sharks had found something worth investigating in the rubble above Blue Corner. A Napoleon wrasse and a big black jack also poked their noses in there from time to time.

Please forgive the backscatter...

ahahaha... I remember that group from Blue Corner!

 

[Phenol]

...always a lot of action , huh? like a fireworks finale everywhere you look.

I still can't get over the walls of jacks and barracuda just hanging in the current at the drop-off. I'd go back anytime!

 

[Cave Diver]

how can you tell? Are you seeing antennae?

If you look closely at the middle of the shell, you can see the two forelegs of the crab curved around it.

 

[mjh]

A couple of my favs...

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Spectacular!

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[diver 85]

Not to rain on your photo parade, but looking at that pic it appears as if there is a hermit crab, not a conch, inside that shell.

Still a very cool pic though!

probably so, I just lump everything into a conch when I see a shell..............GEAUX TIGERS...........