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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.

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.