While visiting the Florida Keys, we went scuba diving for three days. We dived at an SPA area last. A SPA area protects sea life from fishing and spearing. Because of this, the fish and sea life seek these areas out as refuge from hunters. But there was lots of activity from other sea life! The shark is curious about the Eagle Ray in this first video. But the Eagle Ray sufficiently camouflaged himself from view such that the shark left.
In the video below, the shark returns, and the Eagle Ray starts shaking off the sand which startles the shark. So the Eagle Ray and the shark take off in opposite directions.
In the video below, I saw a trumpet fish, so I went to go capture it our guide saw me coming so he waved and then got out of the way. I wish I had a video of it, but later he was facing me and I saw a jellyfish coming at him and I started to tell him exactly at the same time he turned around and basically punched the jellyfish. Consequently, we all swam back to the ship, so he could get it attended to with vinegar. While we were getting back onto the boat, the jellyfish accosted Rick on his shins. And by then the boat was out of vinegar because so many people had been stung. We had to wait to treat his shins until we got back to the shop.
We hope to go back soon so we can see more sea life. We dived with Islamorada Dive Center. They were great! We even got our Advanced Open Water Certification while we were there since we were already doing so many other dives. One day we did four dives, and we ended that day in a daze.
One of our bucket-list dives is a Key West dive to the Dry Tortugas.
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