Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: PrimitiveTim on November 01, 2013, 04:02:21 pm
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One of my favorite places in the whole wide world is the open ocean. I got the chance this Summer to go 15 miles out and swim with some of the ocean life. The shear amount of bizarre life out there in mind blowing. Here's some of what I saw!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkZboratKio&feature=share&list=TLPvCt8ICv0wxVKLwiXc_SnEjCZQnN8I1_
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I spent a lot of years of my life on that coast, fishing, surfing and diving. The nice thing I like about the center of the state is I'm surrounded by Public hunting land and I am 1 1/2 hours from the Atlantic and 45 minutes to the Gulf. Then there's a river full of coral and chert 20 minutes from the house and another the same amount of time away full of mastodon, mammoth saber tooth tiger fossils and tons of sharks teeth, not counting the artifacts, either.
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Ummm! No! Have you not seen Jaws! I personnely can not do the whole open ocean thing, some people fear snakes ,some spiders, with me it's deep blue.
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Ummm! No! Have you not seen Jaws! I personnely can not do the whole open ocean thing, some people fear snakes ,some spiders, with me it's deep blue.
I haven't seen jaws. It feels so good to be free and vulnerable in the open ocean. Swimming in it is like floating around in space! It's an amazing feeling!
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Dun, dunt,,,dun,dunt,,,,dun,dunt,dun,dunt,dun,dunt,dunduntdunduntdunduntdunduntdunduntdunduntdunduntdundunt :D :D :D :D
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I have a friend that does lots of ocean deep water free diving. He spent 2 winters ago in Baja and came back with some incredible pics and stories; like swimming with a whale shark and manta rays and having humpbacks come up from the deep near him while he was 40' down.
Where in central coastal Fla are you. I went to college in Jensen Beach but that was 40 years ago. ::)
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Always wanted to free dive with killer whales. Those blackfish, as some of the Pac Northwest peoples call them, are amazingly beautiful creatures. Once I thought it was a rather risky and daring idea. But recently I found out that of the 70+ attacks recorded on humans, EVERY one was from a captive killer whale. Apparently, the captivity is unhealthy for their psychological wellbeing as well as their keeper's health!
Cool vid, PrimTim. I gotta say, you throw yourself wholeheartedly into life, doncha?
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Pat, Tims just north of Cocoa. When I lived in Lake Worth and did a lot of diving and spear fishing, you just had to go a mile out of Boynton Inlet and you were off the Cliff. I dropped off the back side , not thinking while I was lobstering untill I started getting cold and looked at my Depth gauge and saw I was at a 110'.
deepest I've ever been and when I looked down, it was as close as I would get to what it was like to be in Outer Space.
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JW, it would piss me off to tossed into a swimming pool after having the whole Pacific Ocean. I'd eat everyone that came into the pool till they let me go.
Or the Government said I was toooo, unsafe to release. ::)
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Pat, Tims just north of Cocoa. When I lived in Lake Worth and did a lot of diving and spear fishing, you just had to go a mile out of Boynton Inlet and you were off the Cliff. I dropped off the back side , not thinking while I was lobstering untill I started getting cold and looked at my Depth gauge and saw I was at a 110'.
deepest I've ever been and when I looked down, it was as close as I would get to what it was like to be in Outer Space.
Except in many ways we know less about the depths than Outer Space!
Feel a little excited when you discovered your depth, mullet?
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Yea, around 100-110, Narcossis starts., Good it starts getting cold around there in the summer.
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Something else I would love to see underwater is a couple of billfish corralling a school of baitfish up and feeding! I hear that the billfish do quite a show changing electric colors in their skins.
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I've never seen that, but I saw a "migration"? of thousands of Barracuda while I was going back to the boat from about 60'. It was unreal. I swam to the surface through them, bumping them with my arms across my chest, slowly. They were not aggressive and seemed to have their own purpose for moving together. But, it was cool after I got to the boat, not during it with fish on a stringer. That area off of Boynton and Lakeworth is about as close as the Gulf Stream comes to the coast.
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No sense irritating 'cudas. I would, however love to play a few out on the end of a line! That and have one in my driveway...British racing green with black and gold pinstriping!
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whale shark and manta rays and having humpbacks
Those are all on my bucket list especially the whale shark. I've had manta rays go right under my kayak and I usually see them jumping off in the distance while I'm out in the ocean. Northern right whales come down off of our coast to calve in the winter so I might go look for those but it's illegal to get within like 500 feet or something like that.
I would totally hop in with some killer whales but they tend to hang out in really really cold water! Filming any type of fish, especially sailfish, tearing up a school of bait would be awesome as well!
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JW, I was watching a documentary on the "Black Fish", and it had a bunch of trainers, and a guy from OSHA. There was one trainer, said that very few Orcas in the wild have the floppy dorsal fin, but almost all of the captive whales do. Also it told how when a trainer was killed, it was an accident. At least that is how Seaworld, and Sealand, and all the other attractions, including one in Spain, off the coast, put it. It was trainer error, but never an act of aggression. It told of the guy found dead in the SeaWorld tank. The Whale, had pulled his under wear off, and bit his genitals off! :o The one whale that was involved in a lot of the deaths, and injuries, was kept for profit from sperm sales, but instead of keeping it out of the show, it was put back in the shows, and the new trainers, were never told of his violent history. None of the former trainers were fond of Sea World, or Sea Land, or the other whale attractions. It told about the small tanks, and said basically the same thing as Eddie said, that after having the ability to swim a hundred miles in a day, to being kept in a swimming pool, and then in an even smaller tank, at night, that had no light, and were in among other bigger, more aggressive whales, it causes a Psychological distress, and leads to anger. It showed the rakings, and bite marks, and wounds, on the whales, and yet they continued to have them perform. Like I said the Trainers had nothing nice to say about those attractions. Eddie, the Boynton Inlet area,is excellent fishing, for sail fish, and marlin. a friend of mine took me out Marlin fishing, and I had one on, but it broke the leader. I used to fish there quite often, lots of Snook, grouper, snapper. Lots of King Fish, and Spanish Mackeral also. We used to load up a boat with no problem. Good lobster reefs off the Lantana pavillion. My Dad caught really a nice Sailfish, just off the Chillingsworth Steps, in about nine feet of water. He was catching bait, and decided to see if he could catch a Snook, and instead caught the sail fish! :o 8) I would love to go with you sometime up those rivers, before I go back to Montana in April. I had a Cousin who was a member of the Palm Beach Long Rifles, and used to do a lot of diving around there, and off Palm Beach. One time he surfaced, and got in the boat in a hurry, and told the rest of the guys he wanted to go home NOW! They said he was white as a sheet! When they finally asked what he saw, he just said a big shark. Well they didn't believe that, as he had been VERY close to some BIG sharks, including Tigers, and Hammerheads. But he never did say what he saw, and he never went diving again, and sold all of his gear. He is dead now, so I guess I will never know what he saw. But he was not one for panic. He was always cool, under stressful circumstances. He saw something that he definitely did not like! :o The ocean is beautiful, but like JW said, we know very little about. In fact we know more about the moon, that the ocean. Nice video, PT, nice big ol leather back.
Wayne
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We had a sperm whale beach its self over here ( GULF Coast) last week.I agree with living by the water,gotta love it.
Roger
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the ocean is one of the few things I will miss in Montana, that and the swamps, and hardwood forests.
Wayne