Giant Seabass in La Jolla...
Sep. 21st, 2006 10:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
senoritafishEdit 9/30/06: I think CNN has archived this footage, but there is a one minute clip of the same fish at http://week.divebums.com/2006/Aug28-2006/index.html , one about 3/4s of the way down the page, and the very last image on the page - ctrl-F, enter "giant sea bass", Find Next (3x - there's more than one GSB pic) should get you there quickly, but take your time and scroll, lot's of pretty of pretties along the way...ooh, there's senorita swimming through a frame of the last one...
From my boss:
Or go directly to it, here (in case it falls off the video page).
Shot right across the cove from his office, actually...if the bluffs shown behind the diver speaking were shifted a little to the north, you'd see the building over his shoulder.
I took my mom snorkeling for the first time in the same spot. I'll never forget the "Ooooh!" coming out of her snorkel the first time she saw a garibaldi. ^__^
This video really makes me want to go diving again, although I'd have to get completely recertified now. But that one big fish sure has a lot of parasitic copepods growing out of its face. Ick. I mentioned to my boss how I wanted to scrub all of their faces - he observed how all of the parasites were spaced exactly the same distance apart, and only on their faces. Hmm, sounds like somebody's master's thesis, if it hasn't been done already...
From my boss:
This is from a news spot on a SD station. This is all occurring in the
La Jolla Reserve and there was an effort to make sure that was known.
Actually in the same location where the guy speared and killed one last
year and was prosecuted for it.
http://www.cnn.com/video/
Under the Sci-Tech section, click on "Giants of the Sea"
Or go directly to it, here (in case it falls off the video page).
Shot right across the cove from his office, actually...if the bluffs shown behind the diver speaking were shifted a little to the north, you'd see the building over his shoulder.
I took my mom snorkeling for the first time in the same spot. I'll never forget the "Ooooh!" coming out of her snorkel the first time she saw a garibaldi. ^__^
This video really makes me want to go diving again, although I'd have to get completely recertified now. But that one big fish sure has a lot of parasitic copepods growing out of its face. Ick. I mentioned to my boss how I wanted to scrub all of their faces - he observed how all of the parasites were spaced exactly the same distance apart, and only on their faces. Hmm, sounds like somebody's master's thesis, if it hasn't been done already...
no subject
Date: 2006-09-21 06:58 pm (UTC)Last night, we watched the Jean-Michel Cousteau Ocean Adventures show on America's Underwater Treasures, and there was beautiful coverage of the Channel Islands Preserve (and everywhere else was beautiful too, for that matter). He spent a lot of time on the goliath grouper in the Florida Keys. We have some of those at the GA Aquarium - they hang out near the glass and stare at the visitors. I love it!
They had the most incredible diving equipment I've ever seen, too. If I wasn't so prone to ear infections, I'd think about getting back into diving..... Since I can't I'll just live vicarously.