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dogboy

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Barracuda
« on: October 22, 2012, 11:53:43 PM »
...it's what's for dinner:



...good times with an old friend and my girl yesterday, about 9 miles off Sarasota's coast.

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Re: Barracuda
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2012, 07:54:23 AM »
Awesome. Nasty bugger, eh?
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Re: Barracuda
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2012, 10:45:35 AM »
...nah, it's a surprisingly mild, flakey fish that is very good blackened or grilled:)
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Re: Barracuda
« Reply #3 on: October 23, 2012, 11:27:08 AM »
Haha, sure, was the teeth I was referring to :)
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Re: Barracuda
« Reply #4 on: October 23, 2012, 06:24:51 PM »
Somoene told me years ago that swimming with barracuda was a spooky experience...because they WATCHED you.  And waited until you weren't looking to try to take a bite.
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Re: Barracuda
« Reply #5 on: October 23, 2012, 06:40:50 PM »
They absolutely watch everything. They just hang there motionless then they explode so fast you can't believe it.  But I wouldn't worry about anything under 4 feet, but after that, yeah, if I was diving, I wouldn't trust them... or move real quick... or check my watch:)
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Re: Barracuda
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2012, 02:36:37 AM »
We have a lot of these guys here.  The little guys hang in the shallower water where they can pick up dinner close by on the shallow reef.
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Re: Barracuda
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2012, 03:57:34 PM »
One of my first wreck dives, probably my deepest, farther than I was certified at around 100', I saw one of these.

After checking out the wreck, I went back up the wrong line (wrong end of the wreck), simple mistake, but it was kinda lonely. About the last third, I noticed the guy hanging about 15 feet off, just sitting there staring at me. Since you have to take time ascending, so many feet/minute, it seemed like forever.

He never charged me or anything, but man was it eerie. He was basically motionless and obviously watching me, and me alone. I was glad to get out of the water, and never used the wrong line again.
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