New Dive Pictures

[Nate]

Originally Posted by Snappy

I suspect these are some sort of cardinal or something




More pix to follow soon.

These may be very very juvenile porkfish

Also, he was right about the giant hawkfish a couple pages back, cool to have seen as they are fairly rare

[Snappy]

Originally Posted by Nate

These may be very very juvenile porkfish

Also, he was right about the giant hawkfish a couple pages back, cool to have seen as they are fairly rare

What you guys are calling a giant hawkfish is actually a pretty common sight while diving in the PV area. In fact I can't remember not seeing them in all the dives I've done in that area. A few years ago we were spear fishing and I think we ate one. The locals always just call them small groupers however they have some interesting titles for a lot of things.

They could be porkfish I don't know, when it comes to fish names I'm no expert. There were baby fish everywhere so I'm sure I saw just about every kind of fish they have in the bay and didn't know it.

[RESONANCE]

Awesome pictures and very inspirational! Keep posting them!

Just fyi: Giant hawkfish: Cirrhitus rivulatus
http://www.reel1in.com/Giant-Hawkfish.html

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Originally Posted by Snappy

What you guys are calling a giant hawkfish is actually a pretty common sight while diving in the PV area. In fact I can't remember not seeing them in all the dives I've done in that area. A few years ago we were spear fishing and I think we ate one. The locals always just call them small groupers however they have some interesting titles for a lot of things.

They could be porkfish I don't know, when it comes to fish names I'm no expert. There were baby fish everywhere so I'm sure I saw just about every kind of fish they have in the bay and didn't know it.