Tales from a dive boat captain #2

[u/barefootviking]

Here’s my 2nd installment. Approximately 3 AM between Bermuda and the Bahamas and reliving old stories with a Mate.

#2. Scuba diving in approximately 30 feet of water south of Bimini in the Bahamas. Approximately 6 nurse sharks and an equal number of a bottlenose dolphins were hunting the same way for the same prey and they were doing it together! Blew my mind. The sharks and the dolphins were blowing holes in the sand and sucking up sand tile fish, leaving little craters all over the sandy bottom. I’ve never seen anything like it before or
since. In that same area, I have seen nurse sharks almost cuddling as they sleep together in sand canyons right up against Triangle rocks or Piquet rocks. On the west side of those rocks there’s little sandy channels and I have seen them sleeping there many times at dawn and dusk.

[u/TheButcherOfLuverne]

-Mom, can I sleep over at Jack's tonight?

-I don't know, Flipper, I don't like you going out with that shark

-But moooom he's a nurse shark! A nurse! They are nice sharks!

[u/BlessedCursedBroken]

Wow what an awesome sight!

[u/Striking_Ad8617]

Thanks for sharing 🫡