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<\/p>\nIn the last few months, I have really taken to scuba diving.\u00a0 Recently, I had the opportunity to dive on the east end of Grand Cayman. The diving is great.\u00a0 Less dive boats, great coral reefs and lots of fish\/wildlife.<\/p>\n
We also saw two medium sized reef sharks.\u00a0 These animals are gorgeous.\u00a0 They were not at all interested in us and just gracefully swam by us.\u00a0 No aggression or any hint that it would want to harm us.\u00a0 So beautiful.<\/p>\n
Here are some pictures. To be honest, most of these I have no idea what they are.\u00a0 They sure were pretty though! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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This was amazing!\u00a0 There was a school of thousands of small fish.\u00a0 When swimming though, I was basically blinded, since all I could see were the fish. I could not see at all where I was going. Very cool.<\/p>\n
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This shark is about 7ft long by my estimates. It is a Caribbean reef shark. It was about 30-40ft away from us.<\/p>\n
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Unfortunately shark populations around the world are being depleted. Here in Cayman I have not seen many.\u00a0 In many parts of the world, they are being caught and “finned”.\u00a0 I have not heard\/seen any of this here, which is good.<\/p>\n
Basically their fins are cut off and then they are tossed back into the ocean to die at the bottom since they are no longer able to swim. Quite barbaric \ud83d\ude41\u00a0 Their fins are used to make … soup! I recommend you watch Sharkwater. Its a documentary that I watched recently and that moved me a lot.\u00a0 I promise you will never see sharks in the same light once you see this documentary.\u00a0 The official site is www.sharkwater.com<\/a>. On the main page you will see the trailer which will gve you an idea of what this is all about. The entire documentary is available on Youtube (in 9 parts) The first part can be seen at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vog3z1NsMYU<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the last few months, I have really taken to scuba diving.\u00a0 Recently, I had the opportunity to dive on the east end of Grand Cayman. The diving is great.\u00a0 Less dive boats, great coral reefs and lots of fish\/wildlife. We also saw two medium sized reef sharks.\u00a0 These animals are gorgeous.\u00a0 They were not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-cayman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1045"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1063,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1045\/revisions\/1063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/micho.org\/cayblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}