cool i would love to see one in the wild even thought about doing a cage dive with them but never have
Great white shark spotted off Florida Keys
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Depends on what you're watching.
I've been on Discovery, Animal Planet and most recently Nat Geo. I've also done several aquatic animal news related bits when needed (NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX and PBS). Also done behind the scenes underwater/animal work for shows like BONES. Surprised that in the Land of Rules
In here that would be cause for a serious legal issue.
I hadn't even noticed that part!!! I was watching without the volume. He's in free dive fins, so I had assumed he was free diving. Definitely not when you turn up the volume and hear him sucking air from a tank.
As for it being a white, yes. It was seen a few times and was all over the news here.
Seasons 1,2 and 3. More this season than the previous seasons. I ended up on camera a few times in the first two, but mostly did behind the scenes work to get fish to and from set safely.
I'll shoot you a PM. I'm sure not everyone wants to hear about it.
Surprised that in the Land of Rules
In here that would be cause for a serious legal issue.
So I looked into this, it's only FL that doesn't restrict spearfishing to free diving. Strange, but true.
It really was strange, Matt. Because if you see, ALL of them were carrying spearguns, on top of a wreck, with scuba equipment.
Not surprisingly it should/would be one hell of a massacre were it not for the shark......
Not surprisingly it should/would be one hell of a massacre were it not for the shark......
This is what I found about Florida ( it is a theme for me, as an acient spearfisher, and I detest to see that some guys go about it unsportingly )
HAVANA, Florida — State officials on Wednesday approved a series of draft rules to combat the menace of lionfish in Florida waters.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted unanimously in favor of the anti-lionfish measures.
The rules are open to further public comment until a final vote in June, commission spokeswoman Amanda Nalley said. No one spoke in opposition of the proposals Wednesday.
Commissioners were in the middle of three days of meetings at the Florida Public Safety Institute in Havana, about 20 miles west of Tallahassee.
Lionfish are an invasive species from the Indian and Pacific oceans, competing with and preying upon species native to Florida waters, such as grouper, lobster and snapper.
Proposed rule revisions would include allowing divers to use “rebreathers” to harvest lionfish.
A rebreather is underwater scuba gear that allows a diver to breathe the same air by scrubbing exhaled carbon dioxide and adding oxygen back in, producing little to no bubbles, which scare off fish.
Using them to catch sealife is now banned in state waters.
Moreover, the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission would be given authority to OK lionfish-harvesting tournaments in areas where spearfishing is prohibited.
Such permits would include the removal of other invasive and non-native species.
And a proposed new rule would prohibit the importation and sale of lionfish in Florida. Experts suspect they arrived here after someone dumped one or more out of a South Florida home aquarium about 30 years ago.
HAVANA, Florida — State officials on Wednesday approved a series of draft rules to combat the menace of lionfish in Florida waters.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission voted unanimously in favor of the anti-lionfish measures.
The rules are open to further public comment until a final vote in June, commission spokeswoman Amanda Nalley said. No one spoke in opposition of the proposals Wednesday.
Commissioners were in the middle of three days of meetings at the Florida Public Safety Institute in Havana, about 20 miles west of Tallahassee.
Lionfish are an invasive species from the Indian and Pacific oceans, competing with and preying upon species native to Florida waters, such as grouper, lobster and snapper.
Proposed rule revisions would include allowing divers to use “rebreathers” to harvest lionfish.
A rebreather is underwater scuba gear that allows a diver to breathe the same air by scrubbing exhaled carbon dioxide and adding oxygen back in, producing little to no bubbles, which scare off fish.
Using them to catch sealife is now banned in state waters.
Moreover, the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission would be given authority to OK lionfish-harvesting tournaments in areas where spearfishing is prohibited.
Such permits would include the removal of other invasive and non-native species.
And a proposed new rule would prohibit the importation and sale of lionfish in Florida. Experts suspect they arrived here after someone dumped one or more out of a South Florida home aquarium about 30 years ago.
