Official dive vacation thread

[Myka]

No kidding! ^

Originally Posted by shiftline

Here is my video from diving in the Galápagos Islands last spring. Amazing place

http://youtu.be/txTjzcw1Fv0

So many sharks - awesome!!!

[Reef Pilot]

Saw my first shark while snorkeling, off St.John's (Caribbean) a couple weeks ago. Startled me as he was right under me about 10 ft down, so quietly got out of there as fast as I could... Turned out to be just a nurse shark (not supposed to be dangerous),... but I didn't know that at the time. Was about 6 - 8 ft long.

[saltcreep]

Originally Posted by Reef Pilot

Saw my first shark while snorkeling, off St.John's (Caribbean) a couple weeks ago. Startled me as he was right under me about 10 ft down, so quietly got out of there as fast as I could... Turned out to be just a nurse shark (not supposed to be dangerous),... but I didn't know that at the time. Was about 6 - 8 ft long.

A couple of years ago in Belize, our dive operator let us use spearguns on all of our dives to hunt lion fish. The smaller lion fish would get fed to the nurse sharks right off the spear. It got to the point where the sharks would follow us on the dives.

The larger lions were bagged and brought back to the boat for a beach bbq.