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Scuba diving at Truk Lagoon. A photo presentation of the types of things that you may see on a scuba dive trip to Truk Lagoon. Truk Lagoon was the scene of a WW2 naval battle and there are human remains in this presentation.

Scuba diving in the Maldives. A photo presentation of the types of things that you may see on a scuba dive trip to the Maldives.

Scuba diving in the Maldives. A photo presentation of the types of things that you may see on a scuba dive trip to the Maldives.

Scuba diving in the British Virgin Islands. A photo presentation of the types of things that you may see on a scuba dive trip to the BVI.

Scuba diving in the British Virgin Islands. A photo presentation of the types of things that you may see on a scuba dive trip to the BVI.

Scuba diving in the Bahamas. A photo presentation of the types of things that you may see on a scuba dive trip to the Bahamas. Volume 2.

Scuba diving in the Bahamas. A photo presentation of the types of things that you may see on a scuba dive trip to the Bahamas.

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).

The video was taken in the waters off Guadalupe Island and is at actual speed. 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.

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

One of my favorite dives ever.

Can you identify the 33 species of fish and underwater animals in this video? The animals in the cover photo are two green moray eels and four white tip sharks. This photo was taken at Socorro Island off the coast of Mexico in the Pacific.

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!