This was a great week of diving I did with Sheri Deye, Terry Maas, and Bill Ernst and Bill the top-side camera man for a show coming out in High Definition next season on the Outdoor Channel.
We had four days of absolutely perfect Hatteras weather, a real anomaly to get four days in a row, and I can't give the whole story line away now I'm told so here are just a few quick highlights mixed with pictures.
Diving with Sheri was great and she shot a woman's world record pompano off my boat of 31lbs while we each shot a couple 30lb class fish and dodged bull and sandbar sharks all on camera. The next day we went out and fed the Cudas and the sharks freshly speared fish. One 30-40lb amberjack Sheri shot came up with just the head leaving a nice concave shark bite outline under the head. The third day we hunted Cobias and I stoned one of the bigger one's I've speared in a few years at 70 pounds and she also had a nice cobia. Day four we shot small dolphin under weed lines together and it attracted the attention of a blue marlin and we caught some of that on video too. All in all we had great diving. I also saw a 1500lb leather back turtle which I had not seen in years along with the typical mix of sharks, turtles, manta rays...It was more like diving Hawaii than Hatteras with the absence of current and 5ft waves that rocked the Hatteras tournament 3 days strait following our lucky stint.
We had four days of absolutely perfect Hatteras weather, a real anomaly to get four days in a row, and I can't give the whole story line away now I'm told so here are just a few quick highlights mixed with pictures.
Diving with Sheri was great and she shot a woman's world record pompano off my boat of 31lbs while we each shot a couple 30lb class fish and dodged bull and sandbar sharks all on camera. The next day we went out and fed the Cudas and the sharks freshly speared fish. One 30-40lb amberjack Sheri shot came up with just the head leaving a nice concave shark bite outline under the head. The third day we hunted Cobias and I stoned one of the bigger one's I've speared in a few years at 70 pounds and she also had a nice cobia. Day four we shot small dolphin under weed lines together and it attracted the attention of a blue marlin and we caught some of that on video too. All in all we had great diving. I also saw a 1500lb leather back turtle which I had not seen in years along with the typical mix of sharks, turtles, manta rays...It was more like diving Hawaii than Hatteras with the absence of current and 5ft waves that rocked the Hatteras tournament 3 days strait following our lucky stint.
