- David Mc Kinley's trip Belize Aggressor
2013-04-07 - Long Caye Ridge, Long Caye, Belize
23.5m - 61 min - Dived with David Mc Kinley
FD: Ainhoa, Dario and Elisabeth. 2 scorpionfish Toadfish Huge green moray hunting
FD: Ainhoa and Dario. Scrawled cowfish. Amazing, totally non-bashful lobster. 2 great barracuda. Spotted eagle ray. 2 tarpon. 3 fin turtle.
FD: Dario, Ainhoa Marbled moray, 2 huge tarpon, 3 spotted eagle rays.
FD: Dario, Elisabeth Filefish, two ghost pipefish, marbled moray.
FD: Dario Wow! Tarpon frenzy. Tons of the huge fish whirring right by my shoulder, using my light to hunt small reef fish. Also saw the first shark of the trip, a nurse shark cruising along the reef. Really amazing jacks too. Wore 5mm wetsuit and 5 mm hood/vest, plus 5 mm gloves
FD: Jeremiah 3 Southern Stingrays, 2 Marbled Morays, great little nest of cleaner shrimp. Ultra inquisitive lobster that was literally groping Jeremiah's camera and feeling his arm with his antennae.
FD: Elisabeth, Dario and Ainhoa 3 big Carribean reef sharks cruising along the wall. Loggerhead. Tons of garden eels and stingrays. First time I saw a juvenile scorpionfish, filefish and harlequin pipefish. So awesome.
FD: Elisabeth, Ainhoa and Dario. 2 loggerhead turtles. 3 pipe horses. Followed by a huge barracuda and 2 groupers the entire dive.
Tons of tarpon schooling under the boat. Huge white wrasse and bonefish school hovering as well.
FD: Dario, Elisabeth Blacktip, still wearing my 5mm hood + vest, hence the extra weight. Collllld!
FD: Jeremiah, Andre 3 lobsters, 5 squid (plus the tiniest little macro baby squid that I picked up in my light, only 1/4 size of my pinky fingernail.) Octopus, huge hermit crabs, and tarpon hunting galore.
FD: Dario, Elisabeth, Ainhoa Bucket list much? Awesome dive. Fascinating spot.
FD: Ainhoa and Elisabeth Beautiful juvenile drumfish, pufferfish. Still in my 5mm semi-dry and hood.
FD: Ainhoa, Dario and Elisabeth Huge puffer and the biggest flounder I've ever seen in my life.
FD: Elisabeth, Dario, Jeremiah Huge puffer living in a barrel sponge. Flounder. 6 lionfish slain.
Juvenile Octopus, normal octopus, 1 ultra tiny shrimp, juvenile cuttlefish
FD: Ainhoa, Elisabeth, Dario Skeleton shrimp, 2 rays, 2 pipe fish, huge groupers. Also invented cow fish herding, as Dario couldn't seem to spot them.
FD: Ainhoa, Elisabeth and Dario 2 southern stingrays and a juvenile drumfish.
25-30 trunkfish schooling.
FD: Dario, Elisabeth, Ainhoa 3 lionfish killed
FD: Ainhoa, Dario and Elisabeth Killed two lionfish.
FD: Jeremiah 2 rays, every type of shrimp and crab. Juvenile jellies everywhere.
FD: Jeremiah Saw a southern ray and an interesting eel that I'd never seen before.
FD: Jeremiah, Aihnoa, Dario, Elisabeth Beautiful hawksbill, eagle ray.
4 reef sharks, failed terribly by not bringing my spear for several lionfish.
FD: Ainhoa, Dario, Elisabeth Huge reef shark, plus two others. Had a nice turtle follow us around for the majority of the dive as well. Big school of trunkfish.
FD: Elisabeth and Dario Shark circling around beneath the boat, plus a huge eel.
4 squid and a nice lobster
FD: Dario, Jeremiah, Eric 3 sargassum trigger fish, skeleton fish
FD: Ainoha, Elisabeth, Brian, Lacey, Jeremiah, Andre, Kelly 2 eels, 2 lobster
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