Bill Eberlein the founder of Megateeth.com and the world leading expert on South Georgia Shark Tooth Diving was featured in a story in the Bryan County News yesterday.
Bill rising with teeth
The teeth
Thanks to Gene B. for sending me this link.
A diving inverse of the mass ascension at the balloon fiesta.
“mass descention”
Get a lot of divers to all go down to about 40 feet together in a confined area and shoot a lot of video. Get it in the Guiness Book of World Records
It would be a good thing for the dive operators in Southern California to organize. Lots of publicity and air sales on the day of the mass descention. Lots of fun at the dive party that evening.
Last week I spent three days at Gene’s Dive Resort.
the Resort
It is “All Inclusive” so I gained a few pounds and had a wonderful time. We dove two days for fossilized sharks teeth and actually found some.
teeth I found
the marsh by the fossil deposits
The tide is flowing at about 3 knots so you have to wear a lot of extra weights just to stay in place on the bottom.
The well equipped dive shop
Resort truck and boat in the background
Another spectacular Georgia Sunset
While in Richmond Hill visiting Gene and Carole B we went diving in the tidal river near Gene’s house for fossilized sharks teeth. Visibility was about 6 inches with a light on but it was great fun. It really is a treasure hunt.
Ray and I ready to go
Bill E. who is the expert finds so many that he sells them on the internet. You can see his site at Megateeth.com.
Bill in the water in full gear
note the head light
On this trip Bill found about 15 teeth, one of which was about 6 inches, Gene found one and Ray P found two. I didn’t find any but I did find plenty of fossiized bones and what is purported to be the ear bone of a whale.
Bill’s find
On the last day of any dive trip we have to take an excursion because we can’t fly within 24 hours of diving. This year we took a very long van trip to Chichen Itza to see the temple which was interesting but even better was the rare Motmot bird we saw while at Chichen Itza.
The photo is from Mangoverde world bird guide and was supplied by Mike F. Mike is the official naturalist of the Codger Divers
The Codger Divers had a great trip to Cozumel, QR Mexico last week. We stayed at the Iberostar Resort on an all inclusive package and it was excellent.
We dove with Dive With Martin and it was near perfect. Roberto was our dive master and Jorge was the boat captain.
Nobody drowned and we learned to drift dive.
We saw some large sharks
I`m spending this week diving with the Codger Divers in Cozumel. The Hotel Iberostar is excellent but the internet connections are not good, so I`m not able to read email. It is a big system shock. The diving is very good. We have been going out with Dive with Martin and seeing excellent stuff every day. Nobody has drowned and Joel got certified.
Life is good.
This free postcard was sent to me by Andy B. Andy is one of the world’s greatest warm water divers. Because of Global Warming he has just started diving in Puget Sound. What a great man turning a problem into an opportunity.
Redhook Ale
Redhook Ale Brewery, 14300 NE 145th Street, Woodinville, WA 98072. Free postcards, no purchase necessary although the beer is terrific.
These are a selection of my land pictures. Some underwater shots will be added if any of the highly skilled underwater photographers in the group ever send them to me to post.
This was the group that went to Bonaire in February and March of 2006. As you can see we had a very good time and also did some diving.
We happened to be in Bonaire for Carnival and stood outside of the Mona Lisa Bar for a while and observed the customs of the locals. Some of the Codgers were more into it than others.
Two cruise ships came in during the week and moored near the hotel. These things are big. More than 2,000 people visiting an island with about 12,000 residents.
Mike visiting the open air fruit and vegetable market. It is a beautiful building but the produce was lousy.
Sunsets from the hotel bar were often spectacular. Tom, Howard, Frank, Andy and kind diver from another group who took a picture for us that didn’t turn out that well. “What a great country: you order one beer and they give you two.”
Simon with Pepe one of our two dive masters for the week. Laurel was the other one. Pepe was from Venezuela and competes at motocross. The dive facilities were excellent and very well run. All of the dive sites we went to were within a 15 minute boat ride and the ocean on the leeward side were the diving was very calm.
Howard, Gene, Mike (the driver) and Simon rented a car and toured the island which is pretty much overrun by donkeys and goats. Mike is examining the odd constructions above the town of Rincon and of course looking for birds.
Flyng the kite on the windy and extremely barren part of the island.
The pink haze is some flamingos. Amazing!
More photos later after I solve some technical problems.
We went to Roatan in July of 2003. Unfortunately I had to leave early to finish selling my business. Frank took some underwater pictures but I can’t open the disc to post them on the web site. We stayed at the Coco View Resort on the south side of the island. The place is on it’s own little island and is far from any town which was kind of a negative. They had great shore diving and the dive boat crews were excellent. One of the nice features was that you were assigned a locker near the boats to store all of your equipment, in the morning the crew loaded your stuff on the boat and got it all set up. The diving and organization were excellent but the food was terrible. A few of the guys who stayed all week got sick.
Simon, Gene, Frank, Brock and Mark. Howard was off getting certified.
Frank and Mark enjoying the Sunset
This was on the island tour. They took us to the dump which is also the high point on the island.