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• Start date Start date Jul 28, 2008

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alewar

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Messages 494 Reaction score 176 Location Dark side of the moon # of dives 200 - 499 I've never dove with a Grouper but it seems commercial divers are terrified by them! YouTube - Grouper attack YouTube - Bill Vs. Grouper D

don Francisco

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Messages 993 Reaction score 8 Location Metro New York # of dives 500 - 999 As far as I know groupers are only dangerous if you eat them. Large groupers in the Carribean are linked to increased risk of Cigautera poisoning. Otherwise I've never heard of groupers attacking divers, despite over 500 dives all over the Carribean. Groupers elsewhere may be more agressive, but again I've never heard or read anything about it. In my limited experience the most agressive fishes I've run into are spadefish, Bermuda chubbs and of course damselfishes, which are more annoying than dangerous. . that which doesn't kill me may not make me stronger, but it does make me smarter.

deco_martini

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Messages 1,008 Reaction score 61 Location United States # of dives 200 - 499 Dangerously tasty

Going The Distance

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Messages 208 Reaction score 0 Location Tampa Florida # of dives 100 - 199 While fishing down in the keys a buddy of mine was reeling in a 30 0r so inch grouper, right at the boat a cuda took a bite of it, before the cuda wisked away with its free meal a much larger grouper nailed it on its side at a very high rate of speed. Go figure when Im down with a gun they dont let me get anywhere near them. T

tfsails

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Scuba Instructor Divemaster Messages 640 Reaction score 8 Location Richmond VA # of dives 200 - 499 Are groupers dangerous? To paraphrase my trash man when I told him my dog wouldn't bite him, "He got teeth, ain't he?" Anything in the wild can be dangerous. Groupers won't bother you if you don't bother them. I know--I've been face-to-face with a 5' grouper before and he didn't bother me at all. TF SCUBA Doc & Erstwhile Musician

Thalassamania

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ScubaBoard Supporter Messages 22,171 Reaction score 2,804 Location On a large pile of smokin' A'a, the most isolated # of dives 5000 - ∞ I remember hearing a story about a diver in the gulf who dropped out through the hatch of the bell and had a grouper half swallow him. What ensued was a tug of war between the tender in the bell and the fish in the water, the tender won and the diver escaped with no real damage to anything but his adrenal glands. True, or not, I assume that story circulated in the commercial diving community long enough to create concern. "Too often ... people enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought" - Leapfrog "They are the McDonalds of diver certification. Quick, inexpensive and tasty. Pardon me for saying so, but I also believe it to be a health hazard." - DCBC "It truly does boil down to motivation ... if you believe something is hard, or unnecessary to learn, you won't learn it ... even if it's completely within your capability" - Bob (Grateful Diver)

OceanObsessed

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Messages 750 Reaction score 1 Location On the beach in Lauderdale by the Sea, Florida I'm not sure why Bill was so afraid of that grouper..it wasn't all that big. That video was actually pretty funny My photos S

Sinbad the Diver

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Messages 1,311 Reaction score 9 Location VA # of dives 50 - 99 The only threat I felt from the one I had just passed when the picture in my avatar was taken was being poked in the eye by lobster antanae that was sticking out of his mouth. Unfortunately my buddy had my camera to take the picture that's in my Avatar so I couldn't get a picture of it. And yes, they are scarry delicious. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody knew the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody knew the Earth was flat, and fifteen minutes ago, you knew that humans were alone on this planet. Imagine what you'll know tomorrow.

maged_mmh

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Scuba Instructor Messages 3,421 Reaction score 7 Location Egypt # of dives 100 - 199 spearfishing them all the time down here (Persian gulf) "My name is Doe, John Doe..." Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

foles1972

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Messages 89 Reaction score 0 Location Cape Cod, MA # of dives 200 - 499 I agree that if you don't mes with them, they won't mess with you. I spent ten days on vacation in Bonaire this past January. There was a small, shallow-water wreck that we dove several times over the course of our stay. There was a 4'-5' grouper that lived under the wreck and he seemed very timid.

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