agent707
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Well... OK. It's dead Coral. But I wanted to show it. It's something I got while Diving about 20 years ago. Yes, it was 95% dead when I found it. It was in a sand bed in about 40 feet of water on Okinawa.
I saw it and was like "WOW!" I stuck my hands in the sand and lifted it.. and it came right out! I was so excited I could hardly contain myself. I didn't want it to end up being a pile of crushed coral (and it would have been eventually), so I rescued it and gave it a nice permanant resting place.
I removed my tank and BCD jacket and strapped it to it and air lifted it to the surface and swam it in. Took me like 45 minutes to get it in from just a few hundred feet out off the shore. I had to give my buddy my weight belt (wasn't much, like 10 lbs... you dive light in tropic water).
Anyway, I crated it up and hauled it back to the states with me and have kept it on display in various dens. So I thought I'd share a pic of it as it sits now.
Anyone have any idea what kind it is/was?
I saw it and was like "WOW!" I stuck my hands in the sand and lifted it.. and it came right out! I was so excited I could hardly contain myself. I didn't want it to end up being a pile of crushed coral (and it would have been eventually), so I rescued it and gave it a nice permanant resting place.
I removed my tank and BCD jacket and strapped it to it and air lifted it to the surface and swam it in. Took me like 45 minutes to get it in from just a few hundred feet out off the shore. I had to give my buddy my weight belt (wasn't much, like 10 lbs... you dive light in tropic water).
Anyway, I crated it up and hauled it back to the states with me and have kept it on display in various dens. So I thought I'd share a pic of it as it sits now.
Anyone have any idea what kind it is/was?
