By David Ashcroft (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #1) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 5:09 am: |
Hello All,
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By David Ashcroft (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #2) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 5:10 am: |
ps...i just realised the date of the dive. This isnt a belated April fools post.
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By Bas Noij -- www.vipdiving.com -- (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #653) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 7:09 am: |
JEALOUS
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By brenda (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1318) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 7:39 am: |
Holy, I've seen 1 here but never around Bonaire.
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By Tom Schamp (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #681) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 9:08 am: |
Mola molas eat Lionfish, right?
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By Bob Smits (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #983) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 11:46 am: |
I believe they eat mainly jellyfish
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By Judy Workman (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #311) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 11:48 am: |
I want to see one too! 29 more days and a wakeup!
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By KOB (LBR32) (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #570) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 12:25 pm: |
David -- how cool. I have only seen one in an aquarium in Japan. How neat to see one in Bonaire !!
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By T-Shirt Divers John and Sue (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #866) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 12:28 pm: |
What does it look like?
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By Debbie B.~ Jersey Gal(*) (BonaireTalk Deity - Post #13131) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 12:37 pm: |
Here ya go ~ http://www.earthwindow.com/mola.html
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By KOB (LBR32) (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #571) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 12:39 pm: |
Molas are also known as ocean sunfish.
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By Roy - 'Rayman' (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #4083) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 12:41 pm: |
Did we not get a capture of one of these on the Reefcam last year?
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By Tom Schamp (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #682) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 12:42 pm: |
Hopefully they are NOT good to eat, so we won't have to worry about the locals bagging them.
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By brenda (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1324) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 2:22 pm: |
Heres an interesting brief article
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By Leo Hoogenboom (www.bonphotobonaire.com) (BonaireTalker - Post #48) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 4:04 pm: |
David, are you sure you haven't seen an ocean triggerfish? There's many sighting of those lately and I've personally seen two last week on 18th Palm. Ocean sunfish or Mola Mola's are usually not seen near reefs, but typically in offshore waters. I've seen Mola's in the Med, only in very deep offshore waters, but in the nearly five years that I live here, in the water almost every day, I've never seen one. If it was really a Mola, you've seen something that is more rare than a Whaleshark or Humpback in our waters.
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By Mel Briscoe (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #877) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 7:46 pm: |
I'm with Leo on this one. The location and size make mola unlikely. David, what did its tail look like?
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By kevin thornal (BonaireTalker - Post #48) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 8:27 pm: |
trigger fish..i bet you a buck!
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By Peter Oliveira (LBR28) (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #107) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 8:44 pm: |
I have seen and dove with quite a few in New England, around here we call them sunfish. They can get quite big. Unfortunately they do not tolerate cold water, on occasion I've seen where some stuck around for too long as our water cooled and died.
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By Glen Reem (Supreme BonaireTalker - Post #3291) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 10:08 pm: |
Why always the doubt here???
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By Sparty (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #318) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 10:27 pm: |
If I'm not mistaken, within the last year or so, someone posted pictures of what he called a Manta Ray but was actually a spotted eagle ray. I would consider them harder to confuse than a MM and an Ocean Trigger. That may be why some would question this ID as well.
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By Grunt (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1255) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 10:58 pm: |
I posted this in 09, thinking it was a manta
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By Leo Hoogenboom (www.bonphotobonaire.com) (BonaireTalker - Post #49) on Friday, April 8, 2011 - 11:01 pm: |
Schooling sharks stalking people during their night dives at the Habitat house reef (that where confused for Tarpon), several manta rays feeding in the sand at Tori's reef and Invisibles (Eagle rays or Southern stingrays) and many frogfish about a foot long that where only observed when pectoral fins where opened during swimming.(scorpion fish)
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By David Ashcroft (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #3) on Saturday, April 9, 2011 - 1:01 pm: |
Thanks all for the comments.
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By David Ashcroft (New BonaireTalk Poster - Post #4) on Saturday, April 9, 2011 - 1:05 pm: |
ps. i still tease my partner mercilessly after she and her group came back from Sipadan Island after seeing a manta (cough cough spotted eagle ray) cruise by them........and also the time i guided some japanese divers at Sipadan who were going crazy because they saw a massive school of hammerheads (actually bumphead parrotfish....they really didnt believe me that bumphead parrotfish were not sharks!)
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By brenda (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1325) on Saturday, April 9, 2011 - 2:55 pm: |
I can understand alot of the mis-ids, but really.......Mola very unique. Can't think of anything else that looks like them (esp if one has seen them before)......
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By Jerry C Ligon (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #181) on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 6:51 am: |
I'll put my money with Leo and the Ocean Triggerfish. Really do look similar to Mola Mola, and without documented photo, I do not trust divers with identification.
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By brenda (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1334) on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 7:42 am: |
I can see why you "don't trust divers with id" (vast generalization here, Stan, Marty, Paul, Anna, Dee, et all aren't divers?), if only looking at pics of the 2 fish species one can't tell the difference......a tail (the most obvious 1) then.....
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By Mel Briscoe (Experienced BonaireTalker - Post #886) on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 12:43 pm: |
Brenda, where is "here" that you've mentioned twice?
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By brenda (Extraordinary BonaireTalker - Post #1336) on Tuesday, April 19, 2011 - 5:45 pm: |
Nova Scotia
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By Patti and Jim (BonaireTalker - Post #13) on Friday, April 22, 2011 - 11:45 am: |
Well, we were on island 1st week in January of this year. We've been diving in Bonaire for the past 20 years now. Husband is an instructor, and I'm an assistant instructor. We have dove with Bas numerous times, and knows we are "legitimate".
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