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Eric
Open Water Scuba Instructor

Saturday afternoon proved to be one of those days that reminds me why I choose the Keys for my diving career.� We headed out to Molasses Reef with sunny skies, great viz and little wind.� I was guiding Harry from the Sea Ventures group out of Atlanta and Jeff a local resident.� We descended down and were immediatley greeted by a 5 foot reef shark who was very accomadating by swimming with us for what seemed like at least 5 minutes.� He would dissapear into the blue only to reappear moments later.� This went on for a bit and my photographers were quite pleased.� We also stummbled upon a small spotted eel, (2) southern stingrays, a couple of lobster, and at the end of the dive we hung out with a green moray eel.� This was all in addition to the tons of reef fish and schools of barracudas.� After we got on the boat and after the high fives were complete, I stated to my dive group, “Well for dive two, I’m not sure if I can top that dive,�maybe we if bump into an eagle ray or something…”.� Well wouldn’t you know it, 20 minutes into our dive a goerguos eagle ray with about a 9 foot wing span made at least 5 passes by us.� I was fortunate enough to grab a short video of him and some awesome pics.� As we motored back to port the energy level and excitement was�booming!� Just another day diving here in Key Largo…�

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