Cool Critter Sighting!
Cool Critter Sighting!
Redondo has been so good to me, so many firsts..... my first 6 Gill, my first skate, my first Pacific Electric Ray...... and today, while doing a class.... my first..... get this... OCEAN SUNFISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes! An Ocean Sunfish! We'd just dropped down at ~20 feet to do skills when all of a sudden I looked up to find this huge beautiful creature gliding by, watching us with as much curiosity as I did it. I screamed thro my reg, pounded the instructor on the shoulder and pointed in great excitement. It was incredible. The critter glided by, circled around us several times, clearly watching us. It allowed me to get quite close, and I was immediately regretting that I didn't have a camera at hand. It hung around us for about 15-20 minutes, circling and coming back and forth. I was captivated by it, clearly more than my instructor was as we had to sadly get back to work :-( Certainly made my day.
I love Redondo!
-Valerie :-)
Yes! An Ocean Sunfish! We'd just dropped down at ~20 feet to do skills when all of a sudden I looked up to find this huge beautiful creature gliding by, watching us with as much curiosity as I did it. I screamed thro my reg, pounded the instructor on the shoulder and pointed in great excitement. It was incredible. The critter glided by, circled around us several times, clearly watching us. It allowed me to get quite close, and I was immediately regretting that I didn't have a camera at hand. It hung around us for about 15-20 minutes, circling and coming back and forth. I was captivated by it, clearly more than my instructor was as we had to sadly get back to work :-( Certainly made my day.
I love Redondo!
-Valerie :-)
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Re: Cool Critter Sighting!
No camera? No camera? NO CAMERA?????? ARRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!! ](*,)Zen Diver 2 wrote:Redondo has been so good to me, so many firsts..... my first 6 Gill, my first skate, my first Pacific Electric Ray...... and today, while doing a class.... my first..... get this... OCEAN SUNFISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes! An Ocean Sunfish! We'd just dropped down at ~20 feet to do skills when all of a sudden I looked up to find this huge beautiful creature gliding by, watching us with as much curiosity as I did it. I screamed thro my reg, pounded the instructor on the shoulder and pointed in great excitement. It was incredible. The critter glided by, circled around us several times, clearly watching us. It allowed me to get quite close, and I was immediately regretting that I didn't have a camera at hand. It hung around us for about 15-20 minutes, circling and coming back and forth. I was captivated by it, clearly more than my instructor was as we had to sadly get back to work :-( Certainly made my day.
I love Redondo!
-Valerie :-)
Wow, Valerie! How EXTREMELY Cool!
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Dan Herschman got some great pix of it here:
http://www.northwestdiver.com/showthread.php?t=20110
-Valerie
http://www.northwestdiver.com/showthread.php?t=20110
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I have heard about this Sunfish all day. It sounds so cool.
There is a website http://www.sunfish.org that is asking people for photos and sighting information. For additional information, contacting the Monterey Bay Aquarium to let them know about the sighting might be helpful in getting more info about this fish moving into our waters.
There is a website http://www.sunfish.org that is asking people for photos and sighting information. For additional information, contacting the Monterey Bay Aquarium to let them know about the sighting might be helpful in getting more info about this fish moving into our waters.
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swwet i just saw these on tv on the discovery channel. cool to know what they are and then have somneone heere talk bout siting one. i need to go to redondo
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Diving. . . is an active physical form of meditation. It is so silent- You're like a thought.
SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE SLINKIES. NOT REALLY GOOD FOR
ANYTHING, BUT THEY BRING A SMILE TO YOUR FACE WHEN PUSHED DOWN THE
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Diving. . . is an active physical form of meditation. It is so silent- You're like a thought.
SOME PEOPLE ARE LIKE SLINKIES. NOT REALLY GOOD FOR
ANYTHING, BUT THEY BRING A SMILE TO YOUR FACE WHEN PUSHED DOWN THE
STAIRS.
In my experience, the combination of two teams doing skills and no one carrying a camera is guaranteed to bring out the biggest octopus in Puget Sound . . .Sure, but it looks like I'll have to be doing skills to find it!
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Incredible and beautiful find in ANY water... let alone ours!
More Pics Than You Have Time To Look AT
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"Warning: No dive masters are going to be there, Just a bunch of old fat guys taking pictures of fish." -Bassman
"Anyone who thinks this place is over moderated is bat-crazy anarchist." -Ben, Airsix
"Warning: No dive masters are going to be there, Just a bunch of old fat guys taking pictures of fish." -Bassman
That link didn't work, googled it, correct link is http://www.oceansunfish.orgPinkpadigal wrote:I have heard about this Sunfish all day. It sounds so cool.
There is a website http://www.sunfish.org that is asking people for photos and sighting information. For additional information, contacting the Monterey Bay Aquarium to let them know about the sighting might be helpful in getting more info about this fish moving into our waters.
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holy crap! that is wicked!!! i can't believe you saw one of those here. wow ... i need to get down south already!
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Re: Cool Critter Sighting!
Zen Diver 2 wrote:Redondo.... get this... OCEAN SUNFISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes! An Ocean Sunfish!
Holy Mola! That's incredible!
-Ben
Re: Cool Critter Sighting!
I wish you could hear how loudly I'm groaning.....airsix wrote:
Holy Mola! That's incredible!
-Ben
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mol-a mol-a mol-a mol-a
any further sightings of this Mola at Redondo?
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