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A typical bridge dive. The parking lot at the bridge was completely packed. Steve dropped me and all the gear off at the ramp and went to park the truck. I was in the mood of shooting some fish. I went to the pilings south of the wall and I found a juv Lion fish. It is the second one I have seen. So beautiful. Jhon came flying towads me asking for some video time before we kill it and do a favor to the other fish. I visited the sergeant Mayor with the eggs. They are full of color. On the way back I practiced getting some yawn action and blue backgrounds. And then at the end of the dive I found a group of Oxynoe antillarum, beautiful bright nudi that photograph real well. I ... read more

Lately I have been having a weird feeling of being lost in the crowd. I feel like taking the same pictures of the same critters with the same lens on similar cameras has become a routine, all the photos look the same and it’s boring after a while. The fact that everything that I shot today I have never seen before made this dive the coolest dive of the weekend. The morning light was stunning. I was surrounded by lots of shinnies and I wished I had spent time using the video mode. I saw a couple of needle nose fish in the surface feeding on them. I watch them hunt. Pretty amazing. I started to feel the connection I thought was gone. There were about 4 small frilly seahorses in the grass. Sort of small ... read more

The weather called for storms again but when I looked at the radar they seemed far inland. I prepared my flag for shore diving and off we went heading to the second reef. I swam on the surface almost to the end of the pier but my legs started getting the stress from all the weight: camera, 4 pounds on the flag, 3 pounds on my ankles plus the regular weight. I figure I could dive to the second reef. Well, I got distracted like usual, and once again never made it to the second reef. We were in the middle of the two reefs in an area with rocky bottom and sand. I saw a beautiful clam feeding away I held it with my hand and took it to Steve for him to shoot. It ... read more

I dove with Judy, Mary from Tampa and David, a professional photographer introduced to the bridge just recently. Check out his work here http://davidpearlmanphotography.com/. If the link gets striped google davidperalmanphotography. His underwater photo website is www.underseaimagery.com ; if anyone wants to take a pick. I had lost the o-ring for my yoke adaptor and this unfortunate even made me late for the dive even though I arrived on time. My dive was saved twice. Judy spare me a bottle and a fill and David gave me one of his fat o-rings, Type that I have to stock of. Thanks again to David and Judy. Because of the o-ring I started my dive after the group. I went to check out the two orange seahorses that live on the sponges by the barge but I didn’t ... read more