Category Archives: Wildlife Conservation

Lemon Sharks in Florida

So every year around the month of February in Jupiter, Florida divers from all round go diving to see the lemon sharks. During this period the lemon sharks come in to mate and check out divers. The lemon sharks can reach lengths 7 to 10 feet and weighing in at 400 lbs or more. On...

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Atlantic Goliath Grouper

The Atlantic goliath grouper is a large saltwater fish of the grouper family. The goliath grouper is found primarily in shallow tropical waters among coral and artificial reefs. And the ones we found were on an 80 foot wreck site, because it is spawning season in West Palm beach for these fish. Groupers may reach...

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Reef Check in August 2009

Once again I was out teaching Reef Check Eco Diver on the Pro Diver 2. We started off in te classroom doing our dry run throughs, and I was teaching the boys about the iindictor species. Well one species we record are sea eggs…and I told the boys that sea eggs look like Hostess Snowballs...

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