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Nurse Shark with the hook of a large lure in its mouth.
After days of wind, the seas finally settled down. Morning broke with lots of sunshine and flat seas. The only trouble was I had a board teleconference meeting at noon. If Dave and I could get an early start, we could get in a long dive - it ended up being 70 minutes of bottom time and I just make it back in time for the meeting. We then planned to go again in the late afternoon since it was so nice.
We went to the southern portion of Molasses - it seems to look a lot less damaged than other parts of the reef. Our first interesting sighting was a barracuda with a hook and leader in its mouth.
Then a nurse shark with a large lure stuck in its mouth. When we came back the next day - it was still in exactly the same location. We also found some caves and swim throughs that I had not discovered in dozens of dives on this reef. Is it possible the were formed by the storm?
For out afternoon dive we headed to Conch Reef. A breeze had picked up and I also left my camera on shore. We did another hour of bottom time at this location.