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

He is just too adorable!

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!

It appears that a juvenile dolphin has tried to beach itself. What you are seeing is hard to watch, but if you stay with the video long enough, it has a happy ending. At around 2 minutes into the video, look for the fishing boat in the left-hand corner and about twenty seconds later, look for the man wearing the orange shirt walking into the picture. There is some reason this juvenal has been separated from the pod. For example, a predictor was in the area, it was sick or injured, or something had happened to it’s mother. The possibilities are many, but it appears clear that the animal is stressed. It is hard to watch and not care how this turns out. The entire video is over 9 minutes long would show the boat backing up like it does here for another 2:12 with nothing exciting happening until they released the animal about a minute and a half from the end of this video. Your guess is as good as mine what happened after that. In this story, however, he found its mother and lived happily ever after. Thank you for watching ScubaToad.

The pilot boat (the red boat) transports, the harbor pilot back to shore after he guides the cruise ship out to sea. The tug boat (blue boat) helps guide the ship.

Excited fans ignite sparklers (aka road flares) at Olympiacos soccer game on night of 11/05/2023

Fans ignite flares at soccer game

These eight short videos were filmed at Socorro and surrounding islands. The Socorro volcano is in SE portion of the Revillagigedo Island chain. The last eruption was mostly submarine and occurred in 1993/1994. The other islands (dive sites) were at Roca Partica and San Benedicto. I found the variety of life, and quantity, astounding.

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 is the bridge of the USS Oriskany. The USS Oriskany is a 44,000 ton aircraft carrier that was sunk off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. On the day this video was taken, the visibility was not great.

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!