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This video was taken off the Socorro Islands in the Pacific off the coast of Mexico. These dolphins are as friendly as dogs!

This curious dolphin is so friendly that is decides to spend some time with these scuba divers. How awesome is that?!

Check out how friendly this dolphin is? It's acting just like a friendly doggy! Filmed in Socorro Island.

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.

Check out these four short videos of scuba divers and the dolphins that stopped and visited them at Socorro Island. So cool!

This video was taken off Socorro Island, which is a favorite dive location. Check it out!

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.

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 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!

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.