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This video speaks for itself.

This video was taken at Socorro off the cost of Mexico in the Pacific. A single pod of dolphin (maybe 12 individuals) wanted to check out the scuba divers. The two dolphins in the video appear to be playing with (teasing) the manta ray. They seemed to enjoy it. Dolphin are very intelligent animals, maybe second to man. They must get bored too, because it sure appears that the divers in the video were their entertainment as well. After the dolphin leave, the manta ray returns!

Nurse sharks typically eat such things as conchs, squids, sea urchins and other small sea animals, even small fish. They scoop and vacuum food into their mouths and then down it goes. This one was swimming deep along one of the walls at Little Cayman, which is in the Cayman Islands.

This was taken near Cozumel, Mexico in the Caribbean. It was a beautiful wreck with lots of marine life. In the second half of the video, I turned on my video light and you can see the actual colors of the wreck (and coral) and the fish. For you non-divers, as light travels deeper into water, certain shades of colors within light start to disappear. Of the three primary colors, the reds go first. At deep (i.e. below 100 feet or so) only the greens are left. Using a flash or light, brings out the colors.

Whale sharks are the largest fish in the ocean. However, they feed the smallest of creatures, plankton. This video was taken off the coast of Mexico in the Caribbean. You will be surprised how fast they swim.

This is why I scuba dive. (She putts better than me.)

If you follow Shark Week, you most likely have seen or heard of Lucy. Her broken tail fin is so distinctive that she may be the most recognizable shark in the world, in my humble opinion. She is at Guadalupe Island in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico in this video. She is around 16 feet long and is pregnant. All those scars down her side are mating scars. Matting must be brutal because many of the female great whites have matting scars. Boy has Lucy lived a rough life.

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

This video was taken in Little Cayman, one of the Cayman Islands. There are two Nassau Groupers in the video. While they appear to be protecting the other fish (mostly several varieties of snappers) from the diver, groupers are very curious animals and often come by to check a diver. They have no real teeth to speak of and swallow their food whole.

This large gathering of white tip sharks roamed the reef at night like piranhas in large packs attacking everything they see. This was taken off CoCos Island in the Pacific.

This is just a beautiful spotted ray that swam by me. This video was taken off Little Cayman Island, one of the three islands that make up the Cayman Islands.

This was take during the worlds best night dive at CoCos Island. Lobsters appear blinded by a light at night as you can tell from this video.

I have never seen it before and I have never seen it since. The video was one of the first ones I ever took and it was taken off Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. in 2007.

This video was taken in the Bahamas before a shark feed. This area is know for its sharks and they filmed one of the James Bond movies (Thunderball) not too far from where this video was taken. Awesome!

This the long version of Jumping Crab, where Hermit Crab runs across the background while the Yellowhead Jawfish gets over its shyness and comes out to play.

This Hermit Crab jumps across the background as I waited for a yellowhead jawfish to come out.

This video was taken at Truk Lagoon in the Pacific. Truk Lagoon was the location of a major WW2 naval battle (Operation Hailstorm) where the US sunk over 50 Japanese ship. The largest shark in the video is a Silver Tip shark. These are beautiful sharks and she eventually took the entire bait and swam away with it.

This is the first minute of the best night dive in the world (in my humble, ignorant hillbilly opinion). This dive takes place off CoCos Island in the Pacific off the cost of Costa Rica. These sharks are White Tips and are 4 to 6 feet long and they hunt in pack, just like wolves. They sleep during the day and are active at night. They are no way near as big or as dangerous as great whites or oceanic white tips. CoCos Island is know for it's sharks. This was the location where the lady died from the tiger shark bite a couple of years ago.

These two sharks are migrating down the Pacific coast from Alaska to Central America and this video records them off Guadalupe Island where they are there to feed on the baby elephant seals. Take a look at the tuna tail. That is power. These animals can reach speeds of 35 miles per hour and weigh 1,500 to 2,000 pounds. They are ambush predators and it would be like a car hitting you that you never saw.