{"id":520,"date":"2011-12-13T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/paul\/post\/Photos-from-Belize-dive-trip.aspx"},"modified":"2013-01-02T00:06:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T08:06:12","slug":"photos-from-belize-dive-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sqlskills.com\/blogs\/paul\/photos-from-belize-dive-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos from Belize dive trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n(2-foot wide Octopus during a night dive off Turneffe Caye, Belize)<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nKimberly and I headed to Belize in November for our first dive trip in well over a year (we're not letting that happen again!) and spent a week on the <\/font>Belize Aggressor III<\/font><\/a> liveaboard dive boat. Doing liveaboards is the only way to dive – eat, sleep, and dive for 7 days! I did a bunch of courses during the week, including my very-long-overdue Nitrox and Advanced Open Water certifications, and 26 dives to make it up to 122 total dives. I managed to tick something off my bucket-list – diving the famous Blue Hole (down to 140 feet!). I also took a lot of photos! <\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nHere I present my favorites from the week. Click on a photo for a 1024×768 enlargement.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\nLeft to right below: Lizardfish; 3-ft Grouper who liked to be stroked.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nLeft to right below: Kimberly with her new camera rig; 5-ft barrel sponges.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nLeft to right below: mated pair of Banded Coral Shrimp; very small (1-inch long) Secretary Blennie that Kimberly found.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nLeft to right below: juvenile File Fish (about 2 inches) during a night dive; Brittle Star during a night dive.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nLeft to right below: Basket Star during a night dive – these guys are fun to feed by holding a light just by them and all the little worms and critters in the water swim to the light and and the Basket Star catches them; Brittle Stars in a barrel sponge during a night dive.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nLeft to right below: Large (9-inch shell) hermit crab; White-Speckled Nudibranch (about two inches long) I was lucky enough to spot in a sea-grass and soft coral forest.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nLeft to right below: Swimming with 8-ft Black-Tipped Reef Sharks – we really were that close!; looking up at a big shark.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nLeft to right below: the same shark again; swimming with a school of Jacks.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nLeft to right below: Speckled Moray warning me off; large (8-ft) Green Moray.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nLeft to right below: Now the Green Moray has seen me – Morays have terrible eyesight; a Jawfish – these guys live in little burrows in the sand and are very shy – I spent 1\/2 hour lying on the sand waiting for this shot.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nLeft to right below: Lobster during a night dive – with mood lighting; solitary Banded Coral Shrimp during a night dive.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nLeft to right below: 4-inch Large-Eye Shrimp burrowing into the sand during a night dive; Speckled Toadfish during a night dive – these are really weird looking fish – very flat and wide – and extremely rare!<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

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\nLeft to right below: Octopus (same one as the picture at the start of the post) during a night dive.<\/font>\n<\/p>\n

\n <\/font>\"\"<\/font><\/a> <\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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