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NowasReef
04/03/2006, 10:44 AM
A few weeks back I was in the BVI on a 7 day sailing trip and was able to do some snorkeling. i used an olympus d-580 w/underwater housing and took a bunch of pis and I thought I would post some...the first is a little blurry but it was in a cave and an entire wall was covered in sun coral...AMAZING!!!

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j13/dnowa1975/wallofsuncoral.jpg
NowasReef
04/03/2006, 10:48 AM
the next pic is a school of atlantic tangs that were feeding that I followed around ...it was cool that there was a trumpetfish and parrotfish mixed in the school....and then a cuda that was on the bottom in about 25ft of water or so...he was 3- 3 1/2 feet long

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j13/dnowa1975/tangschool3.jpg

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j13/dnowa1975/stripedcuda.jpg
NowasReef
04/03/2006, 10:49 AM
is anyone interested in more pics?
gobygoby
04/03/2006, 10:52 AM
absolutly!

I went snorkling off the island of Isle Muhares in cancun. as soon as I jumped in I saw a 3' barracuda that was about 10' from me. he took a quick look then darted off. Luckily I was able to get a decent shot. I will try and post a pic tonight. Pretty cool!
NowasReef
04/03/2006, 11:01 AM
this guy was close to 6ft long...was HUGE......saw it hovering under a boat...everytime I got near it would open up its mouth like in this pic and show his teeth......a little blurry because I tried to keep a distance :)

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j13/dnowa1975/cudaunderboat.jpg
Elite
04/03/2006, 12:05 PM
Love the pic of the tangs :)... post some more please
gobygoby
04/03/2006, 12:08 PM
Thats awesome! he does look a bit scary!
NowasReef
04/03/2006, 12:22 PM
prabaly the highlight of my trip was seeing this octopus feeding on a snail....check out how his color changed....this was about 11am...I guess it's kind of rare to see them like this in the daylight....

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j13/dnowa1975/octopus1.jpg

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j13/dnowa1975/octopus3.jpg
NowasReef
04/03/2006, 12:25 PM
elite - heres another of the tangs....they were feeding off a wall in this one and I was able to get right in the middle of them...it was cool...

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j13/dnowa1975/tangschool6.jpg
NowasReef
04/03/2006, 12:30 PM
One morning we went out at about 7am and it was cool to see a lot of fish where we were feeding...as I was snorkeling I just became surrounded in fish...heres a shot of some sgt majors and a yellowtail snapper....I was amazed that these sgt majors are like 10" in the wild.....

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j13/dnowa1975/sgtmajornsnapper.jpg
jcanute
04/08/2006, 08:29 PM
sweet pics! we went on a 10 day cruise in january. went to the virgin gorda . it was awsome! there are a ton of tangs in the caribbean.