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http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/y...nknowncrab.jpg Can anyone ID the below fish me? http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/y...nknownfish.jpg http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/y...nknowncrab.jpg http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/y...rumpetfish.jpg http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/y...unanemone2.jpg http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/y...ngray21of1.jpg http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/y...parrotfish.jpg http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/y...dgoatfish2.jpg http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/y...edgoatfish.jpg http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/y...terflyfish.jpg http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/y...umtrigger2.jpg http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/y...hoicegrunt.jpg |
Wow! Gorgeous! The fourth pic with the 3 fish looks like you were joining a fishy discussion, great photos, thanks for sharing!
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Wow and Wow and OMG WOW!!!!!!!! Beautiful pictures!
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You sir take some amazing photos! I can't believe the clarity on all of the close shots.
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Very Nice indeed. What was the wreck, & what was the Bull site? Thx.
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Thanks everyone!
The wreck is called Mama Vina. I'm not sure what the bull shark dive site was called. It was literally a 2 minute boat ride directly off shore of Playa del Carmen. Here is a video of it, not sure how to embed a video: http://s778.photobucket.com/albums/y...t=DSCN0196.mp4 |
Thats awesome! I guess I know where my next dive is gonna be. Thx for sharing.
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Wow I never saw half that diving in the Mayan, please share as much info as you can on the sites you went to! I'm heading down there this summer to do some diving among other things :mrgreen:
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You are a great photographer. Beautiful pics.
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Your photos are absolutely awesome! Thanks for sharing.
Can you please provide the details of the dive sites and dive shops you used? We are doing a dive trip to Akumal and Cozumel in August and that shark dive looks exhilarating. They were bull sharks?? |
Wow, fantastic pictures!
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WOW WOW WOW beautiful pictures ! Love the grey angelfish !
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Wow, those are some great pictures, thanks for sharing!
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Thank you again everyone.
The dive shop was "Dive Mike". They were pretty good and I would recommend them. Unfortunately I didn't write down the dive site names. All of them were within a 20 minute boat ride of Playa del Carmen. I do remember the wreck "Mama vina" and my favorite site, which was a shallow ~30 ft dive, Jardines. The bull shark dive is seasonal (I went in January), so I'm not sure if it will be available in August. It was really expensive for a single tank dive ($120!), but still worth it. The dive master feeds the sharks with a chain mail vest on. Treebeard - Cozumel is a fantastic dive destination. It is far better than where I took these pictures. Have fun! |
wow great photos! So jealous of all you diver type people and your fancy pants diving photos.
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So nice. one day i will have to move to some place warm and near ocean
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Nice Photos, keep up the great work, I love the drive by shooting in Cozumel.
For all that have nevered scubadive Cozumel "Drift Diving" drop down 60 ft or so underwater, take pictures as the current takes you about 1 km away and the boat follows your bubbles. |
Just incredible...very jealous. Thanks for sharing!
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Very beautiful! Thank you for posting. The fish you asked about is a Redband Parrotfish (Sparisoma aurofrenatum).
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Hey Jake, I would pass on the bull shark dive but not because of the price. My dive instructor aka my wife tells me that bull sharks have a rather aggressive nature, and being from South Africa I trust her advice. :biggrin:
Next August will actually be our third trip to Cozumel. Last August we had some great dives...Columbia, Tormentos, Palencar, Cedral...can't wait to get back! We have a Nikon S8100 with an Ikelite housing, but I can tell from looking at your pictures that I need to get a strobe. |
Fantastic pics!
I think I love the shots of the schooling grunts and porkfish the best. Thanks for posting |
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good 'ol search function on CanReef... found this old post. Dusting it off...
I'm heading to Playa del Carmen in December, looking forward to diving there. I have more vacation days than my wife, so I'm going down alone. My sister and her family are going to be there at the resort, but they don't dive. I'll get to sneak off and do lots of diving. Anyone else with experiences / dive operations for Playa del Carmen? Also, thinking of getting a GoPro Hero3+ for this trip. Anyone do any diving with GoPros? Advice on mounts / where to get red filters in Calgary? |
Cage diving with Bulls or just free swimming?
Bull sharks are the number one shark for attacks on humans. Aggressive sharks! How was it?! |
How did I miss this thread the first go 'round?
Awesome pictures. I am heading to Playa in mid Nov - can't wait to try out my new fins & Hawaiian sling. :mrgreen: |
Hawaiian sling? I had to Google that because I was certain it was the preferred beachwear for the Italians dudes you see down there. :biggrin:
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I'm heading back to Playa del Carmen in January! I have never dived with GoPros, but have seen fantastic video from them. They seem to be great value too as you could easily spend $2000 on a underwater housing/light for a video camera. Unfortunately I don't remember the operation I dove from. Looking at the map, I think it was Dive Mike. I thought they were pretty good. Honestly liked them more than any dive shop I went with while living in Hawaii. The bull shark dive was really cool. They charge you a lot, but it is worth it. I saw 20-30 sharks on that dive, many of which where within an arms reach. It is seasonal, but you are going at the peak time I believe. It is a cageless dive. The diving overall can be good. Generally the further south you go, the better the diving. Cozumel was really nice, but it wasn't worth a whole day of my vacation on the bus/ferry just for two dives. The cenote dives are very cool too, but again they take up most of your day in travel time. Anyways, have a great time! I love the Mayan Riviera. |
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I'm pretty skeptical about Cancun dive shops... I used one of the main ones to get to Cozumel, and again the travel was just crazy. They put me on a bus to a ferry to get to Cozumel, then bused us to a dock where a boat was waiting, then that boat took us to our dive boat. I was fortunate that my dive buddy was fluent in spanish as the shop left us out to dry on the way home (nobody picked us up from the ferry). Then again, it is Mexico, so organization and efficiency are rarely a top priority. If you go to Cozumel and have your own gear, put it in a rollable suitcase as these is a lot of walking and hauling gear on the way. |
I went to Cozumel last April/May. I don't have dive certification, but I went on several snorkeling tours. We just rented the boat to ourselves for a few hours and went out to Palencar and Colombia reefs. Palencar was a bit deep for snorkeling at about 50 feet, but it had a lot of current that just floated us along. I saw many, many HUGE Barracuda, but the reef was too deep to really explore. Colombia was awesome! It was about 30 feet deep and had big rock formations all over that came within 15 feet of the surface. Lots of Acropora corals and brain corals and BIG Angelfish. I can dive down about 30 feet with my snorkel so I was able to check it out well. We also went to another one I can't remember the name of. It was shallow - only 15 feet or so, but was all sand with the occasional rock here and there. We saw tons of starfish, but not much else. Clarity was terrible so I was freaked out about sharks.
As a side note, there is a submarine tour on Cozumel that was really great too. It was US$100 per person I think, but it went down to 110 feet and we saw lots of really cool reef life including Nurse Sharks, Sting rays, Angelfish, Barracuda, Lionfish, Octopus, etc. It took us to the edge of the Palencar wall so we could look down into the black abyss. I have no idea how people have the balls to dive down there! :eek: |
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Although I love Akumal, the diving in Cozumel is better hands down. Cozumel is more expensive but it is worth it and I would never consider just a day trip. Cozumel has it all, from deep wall dives, fast drift dives, huge coral pinnacles, turtles, huge groupers, nurse sharks, you name it. It's a 45 minute ferry ride from PDC to San Miguel and sometimes the sea can be very rough. If Cancun dive ops do go to Coz not sure if it would be a pleasant trip on a rough day.
For diving on the mainland, consider staying at or near Akumal. There is some nice diving there and the attitude is much more laid back than the cattle boat operations Cozumel is known for. When we go to Cozumel we tend to go with the smaller shops. When we dive in Akumal we always dive with Akumal Dive Adventures. We get to pretty much decide where we want to dive and we are treated like family. |
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