HUNTING MEGALODONS! Scuba Diving Venice, Florida for Fossil Shark Teeth
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Join us in Venice, Florida, as Rich and I team up with Fossil Junkies for an exciting scuba diving adventure in search of ancient fossilized Megalodon teeth! 🦈🌊 We explore three prime spots and uncover a treasure trove of marine fossils, including Megalodon teeth, Sand Tiger shark teeth, extinct Snaggletooth shark teeth, and even a rare golden beach-colored Tiger shark tooth.
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Keywords: fossil hunting, scuba diving, Megalodon teeth, Venice Florida, ancient marine fossils, Sand Tiger shark teeth, Snaggletooth shark teeth, Tiger shark teeth, Fossil Junkies, prehistoric treasures, shark teeth hunting
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Nice Sand Tiger at 2:05, and a very nice Tiger at 2:27. No Hemis (hemipristis, or snaggletooth) (actually my favorite, even above megs), or mastodon teeth, but that gives you two for the bucket list. I've got dozens of megs of good quality but only 6 nice Hemis, and NO complete mastodon teeth (lots of partials). Ok, on second look, you did get a hemi in the last shot (on your hand), fourth from left, right after the three extinct Mako partials (Nice!) a nice rock (the big one in the middle), couple of partial megs, couple of more rocks, a tiger and a nice, complete meg!
Venice beach is by far my favorite dive. I've been diving it since 2003 and have close to 1000 dives there. I mapped the "boneyard" for my dive master project in 2007. The boneyard is kind of a generic term, but honestly, it doesn't look like you were on it (unless that's where your gopro died). What's generally accepted as the boneyard is the bed of an ancient river that flows north/south paralleling the coast, about 1/2 mile out (15-19' of water). Most of the charters in the area have one or two "boneyard" spots (it doesn't make the charters wrong, after all where do you find bones? The boneyard!). It looked like you were a bit far out for that. You'll know you found it when the bottom changes drastically. It's very rocky (with larger rocks and debris filled with a bit of relief (1'-2')). You won't find many smaller teeth on the boneyard, but that's where you will have the best chance of finding a big meg (look along the edges on the inside and outside). I've pretty much found that the size of the rocks and detritus will tell you the size of the teeth you will find. The areas with the smaller, sparser rocks have the smaller teeth, and the areas with the bigger rocks tend to hold more megs.
A buddy of mine, as we were wading out for a dive one day, stumbled, reached down, and pulled up a Mastodon femur from a juvenile (it was about 4'long). Inside the first sandbar, just south of Dog beach. Any swimmer could have found it.
Another fun site to see at Venice beach is a place I call the Ridge. It's about 3/4 of a mile out (it's doable from shore, but a Looong swim). It's a ridge that averages about 6' of relief, again running north/south. It's loaded with fish. Saw the biggest snook I've ever seen there. It was every bit of 6'. I know because I swam right up to it and measured myself against it. I honestly thought it was two fish at first. Also, those little balls of seaweed on the bottom are loaded with seahorses and pipefish, but you've got to look closely or you'll miss them. There's also lots of peacock Mantis Shrimps (thumbsplitters) there, but usually they see you before you see them, and all you see is their hole. If you keep looking around the edges of visibility, you may catch one staring at you from its home. They're about 1.5" in diameter and go straight down.
If you're visiting in late March through around early May, you may be lucky and see (and swim in) schools of thousands of cownose rays as they migrate up and down the beach. Just keep an eye out for anything with whiter teeth following them :). Tarpon can also be seen here during that time.
There used to be a guy we called "Captain Morgan" who was the real expert on this stuff. He used to make casts of meg teeth, paint them (sometimes like flags, but when he was feeling evil, he would paint them kinda realistically) and number them. He threw these in all over the place around Alhambra. It was a lot of fun to find one of his teeth, I have several. In fact, the first 6" tooth I found was made of Cement and personally signed by Bob. lol, I came across it, and I'm sure I sounded like a dolphin by the squeal I made before I found out it was concrete.
BTW, I've always called that mess in the water column "whale snot", or "whale sperm" (you're welcome for the visual). The vis you had was remarkable. I'm really happy if I can see my fins there.
I'm glad that you had a chance to visit this treasure, but as you can see, you've barely scratched the surface! And you will find just as many (probably more) teeth diving from the beach than from a charter. Hope you can come back again soon and find that trophy tooth! Good luck!
Jeff, this is such an amazing and informative comment.
Did you see the nice blue lightning Hemipristis I found on the river in my last longform video? Also, the Hemi you saw in the group of teeth you pointed out I showed finding it in the intro of this video.
I thought the charter was a good way to get some guidance and a little experience under my belt in the area. It was a great time, and it was well worth it to get my feet wet.
I think I will go back and do a couple of shore dives soon (provided we don't have any red tide issues). I also have a 22ft center console boat (I've been building for a while and doing videos on it), and I think it would be a great dive boat for Venice.
It was a super fun experience. Maybe I will see you out there sometime.
@@TerraSharkTV First, thank you for the kind remarks. I must have missed the hemi in the intro, or thought it was a tiger. Just saw your other video with the hemi! Damn! That Hemi is beautiful and I think the largest I have seen. Now I gotta dig mine out and check.
It's not the largest Hemi out there but it was an exciting find. Any chance you want to share your Boneyard map? I am hoping to try a shore dive in Venice within a week to see how I like that.
I tried a shore dive today. Boy, that's a long kick from the beach. Visibility was terrible. (Atleast where I was) It definitely gave me respect for the people who shore dive that area regularly.
Just like treasure hunting!
Black Gold!
Very cool
Thanks for watching! And as always thank you for saving the world that one time.
1.3 teeth per minute!
Seems like a fair rate.