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The picture is not on test. But the picture is of a Lionfish.

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 speaks for itself.

He did not fit. The next video is the one where he backed out of that hole and tried to find a different one.

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?!

The Blue Hole in the Bahamas is one of the world's deepest sinkhole. It, and many others in the Bahamas, was formed around 15,000 years ago during the last Ice Age when sea levels were significantly lower than they are today. Ice ages cycle every 20,000 years or so. In other words, where we were scuba diving around the Blue Hole was above sea level 15,000 years ago instead of 80 feet below the surface today. That was when Chicago was under 100 feet of ice and glaciers covered the Great Lakes. Well, so much for man causing climate change. But the marine life around the Blue Hole is fabulous (as observed in this video) and with the Blue Hole's geologic history, it is one of my top 20 dive sites.

This gutsy California fur seal was swimming around our shark cage while we were awaiting for the great white sharks to show up at Guadalupe Island.

This video was taken in the Bahamas.

This video was taken in the Bahamas off one of the southern most islands. The dolphin in this clip returned from the surface two other times to swim with these divers!

This video was taken off one of the southern most islands of the Bahamas. The video cuts out the minute that the dolphin spent on the surface before it's nosedive to the bottom to play "don't touch me" with the divers.

This video was taken off the coast of Mexico and speaks for itself.

This video was taken off Guadalupe Island off the coast of Mexico. The water temperature was 65 degrees.

AKA - Get out of the way! This video was taken on our honeymoon in 2017.

This video was taken off Guadeloupe Island in the Pacific. Guadeloupe Island is off the coast of Mexico and the white sharks migrate past the 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 white sharks are there.

This is a dive site in the Coco Islands in Costa Rica. More of an elbow cavity tunnel through a rock, the current with the change of tides can be very strong. I am sure that after watching the video, you can see how it got its name.

This video was taken in the CoCo Islands in the Pacific. These Islands are off the coast of Costa Rica and are know for their sharks. The shark in this video is a large Galapagos Shark that had just scared away all the smaller white tip sharks that had been swimming around us. Specifically, the white tip sharks were using our dive lights to find prey. All the fuzz in the water is plankton that appears at night to look like snow when the video lights shine and reflect off them.

This video was taken at Socorro which is known for its manta rays. Manta rays eat plankton (tiny marine animals that float in the water) and are peaceful animals that often have an entire ecosystem swimming around with them.

This is Part 4 of a 41 minute video that was taken in the Maldives. These are very intelligent animals, smarter than dogs and yet they will mate only once in their lives and the will both die shortly after they mate. To continue their species, she will lay up to 200,000 eggs and will die of starvation protecting them. He will die several months later. As you watch the video you can see how octopi can change colors and shapes to blend into the rocks around them. They can get into and out of just almost anything and change colors to match it.

This video was taken at Socorro which is known for its manta rays. They eat plankton (tiny marine animals that float in the water) and are just peaceful animals that often have an entire ecosystem swimming around them.

This is Part 1 of a video that was taken in the Maldives and it is exciting to watch. These are very intelligent animals, smarter than dogs and yet they will mate only once in their lives. As you watch the video you can see how octopi can change colors and shapes to blend into the rocks around them. They can get into and out of just about anything and change colors to match it. I have over 41 minutes of these two on video. Part 4 is the best. I don't know if I can show that one on Rumble.

It is not uncommon to have a fish follow along with a stingray while the stingray looks for food. Stingrays like the one in this video eat crustaceans, snails, clams, shrimp and other small marine life, including small fish. They have electrical sensors that can detect food hiding in the sand. If a larger fish like the one in this video tags along, the fish can often get an easy meal with the stingray’s leftovers or with what it "stirs up." This video displays one of those hunting parties.