ScubaToad

We must admit that the scuba mask is so cool and just in time for Easter!

This occurred around 35 minutes into the affair. She left right after this. You go figure.

It's amazing how beautiful the ocean is!

It is hard to interpret it any other way! This is so cool!

These are Whitetip Sharks and this video was taken off the Cocos Islands in the Pacific. Cocos is off the coast of Costa Rica and the island is know for its sharks. The Whitetip Sharks at Cocos sleep during the day and feed at night. All the fuzz that can be seen in the video is plankton that appears as a reflection when the video lights (or flash lights) shine directly on them and reflect back.

Socorro Island is known for its manta rays and in this video, four of these majestic animals swim with divers at Roca Partida (one of the numerous dive locations on Socorro Island). So cool!

Baby dolphin beached itself and was saved by local fishermen.

Lionfish are not native to the Caribbean (Gulf of Mexico) and they have no natural enemies in these waters except for man.

Such an amazing experience!

This baby turtle is just cuteness overload!

A pod of false killer whales visited scuba divers at Socorro Island. They are called false killer whales because they hunt similar to killer whales, but they look more like pilot whales.

Check out these four short videos of scuba divers and the dolphins that stopped and visited them at Socorro Island. So cool!

These are Caribbean Grey Reef Sharks. They are awaiting their twice a day feeding around a wreck in the Bahamas. Grey reef sharks are common in the Bahamas and this was the general area in the Bahamas where parts of the James Bond movie "Thunderbolt" were made. If you remember the movie, it had sharks swimming around a military airplane.

This is the bridge of the USS Oriskany, a 44,000 ton aircraft carrier that was sunk off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. The ship was launched on October 13, 1945 and is 888 feet long. The fight deck is about 140 feet down and deep of the bridge in this video was over 80 feet, as can be seen by the lack color other than green (except when the video strobe light adds light and color).

This video shows what it looks like from the dive boat when cage diving at Guadalupe Island off the coast of Mexico. The Great White Sharks are there so they can feed on juvenile elephant seals because elephant seals use Guadalupe Island as a nursery each year in the late summer and fall. The water visibility is outstanding (80 to 100 feet). The shark in this video is a adult female great white shark in the 15 foot range. From my underwater videos, it is easy to see that these animals actually do look bigger underwater. You can also see in this video that these are careful animals that do not mindlessly attack everything they see. Oh, why do I say the shark in this video is a she, well, because she looks pregnant.

This video was taken off Socorro Island, which is a favorite dive location. Check it out!

The video was taken in the waters off Guadalupe Island. This Great White Shark is escorted by a school of pilot fish. I guess he is a messy eater. Great white sharks migrate past Guadalupe Island annually to feed on juvenile elephant seals. Elephant seals use the island as a nursery in the summer and early fall and that is when the great white sharks are there. Male great white sharks have two long things hanging out (claspers). The females are typically bigger than the males and typically have mating scars (unlike males).

This large gathering of sharks took place at Truk Lagoon. A shark Feeding Frenzy is always fun to watch. As you can see from the video, size matters if you are a shark. The big shark in the video is a Silver Tip Shark, the majority of the rest of the sharks are Grey Reef Sharks.

One of my favorite dives ever.

Octopus are unusual animals in that they live to mate one time. Both males and females will bred only once in their life and both of these individuals will die from this event. The female will starve to death protecting her 10s of thousands of eggs and the male will also starve to death several months later. Not what you would have expected from one of the most intelligent animals on earth. These animals (octopi) are a lot smarter than dogs or cats.

Check out how friendly this dolphin is? It's acting just like a friendly doggy! Filmed in Socorro Island.

This video was taken off the Socorro Islands in the Pacific off the coast of Mexico. These dolphins are as friendly as dogs!

This video was recorded during a night dive off the Cocos Islands in the Pacific (west of Costa Rica). All of the lights in the video come from the divers' cameras and flashlights and the fuzzy junk in the water that blurs the vision is plankton. However, the good news is this little fella got way. White tip sharks feed at night and hunt in schools like a pack of wolves.

This curious dolphin is so friendly that is decides to spend some time with these scuba divers. How awesome is that?!