Photos taken 19 January 2007 on Snapper Ledge in Key Largo, Florida in the middle of the afternoon. I was teaching an open water class and had 2 students in the water who saw this on their very first ocean dive.
Fantastic thing to watch! Were you able to stay until the trunpetfish was all the way down? Did its progress stomachward slow down or stop at some point? Did the snapper keep swimming around or hang out in one place?
life as usual
neither fish looks too excited about the whole ordeal
I never get to see such a
I never get to see such a think. I can't go diving anymore, dad works for Alaska Cruises so all I see now is dull water with nothing else around.
snapper eating trumpetfish
Fantastic thing to watch! Were you able to stay until the trunpetfish was all the way down? Did its progress stomachward slow down or stop at some point? Did the snapper keep swimming around or hang out in one place?
Dee Scarr, Touch the Sea
big stomach?
Makes you wonder how it all fit in its stomach. Nice photos!