Scuba Diving Tips: Caribbean Fish Identification

Learn how to identify a variety of fish found in the Caribbean in this free scuba diving video from a staff member of the New England aquarium.

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Summary: Scuba diving will be one of the most exhilarating experiences of your life. You will actually be swimming with sea creatures in their own habitat. Sure, snorkeling is fun, but scuba diving is the real deal: total immersion in an alien environment. Part of the thrill of diving is getting to know this environment and its inhabitants. The ocean presents an amazing variety of aquatic life, each fish their own name and characteristics.

In this free series of scuba diving videos, an experienced diver will tell you how to identify several fishes common in the Caribbean sea. Don Stark will describe each fish, then show you footage of each of the fish as he tells you more about them. See clips of a variety of angelfish, as well as the parrotfish, the fairy basslet, the white margate, the blug tang, as well as the dreaded barracuda. Watch these clips and enjoy your next dive more!

About the Expert

Don Stark is a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor with more than 20 years of active diving experience. He is a Senior Diver Volunteer at the New England Aquarium in Boston, where he helps care for the animals in the 200,000 Caribbean Reef Exhibit, the Giant Ocean Tank. He has been a frequent participant on fish collecting expeditions to the Bahamas with New England Aquarium staff and is the co-author of the PADI Underwater Live Specimen Collector specialty certification course. He is also an award winning videographer with over 10 years of underwater videography experience. More of his work can be seen at www.ScubaVisions.TV.

Contact: www.ScubaVisions.TV

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