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On our first dive, my dive buddy promptly ran into a piece of staghorn

coral that put a gash in his forehead. I looked at him with his mask half full of blood/water and saw blood streaming from his forehead. We surfaced and the captain said he would be fine so we went back down with blood streaming from his head and found ourselves face to face with the biggest barracuda I have ever seen. He was about 6+ feet and we later found out he was a popular resident of the reef named Billy. We proceeded without incident but I was happy I wasn't the one oozing blood everywhere.
Several people on our boat saw a 12' hammerhead. While I would have liked to see him, it is probably a good thing we didn't.

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Posted: 05/18/2021 at 10:54AM

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Not this week. Today’s the best day. Next trip! ** -- PhotoHokieNC 05/18/2021 08:59AM

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On our first dive, my dive buddy promptly ran into a piece of staghorn -- No Clue 05/18/2021 10:54AM

Mean looking suckers to be sure but the only thing we were warned -- `lag 05/18/2021 10:59AM

Probably fire coral. I generally try to avoid touching any coral -- No Clue 05/18/2021 11:10AM

And they told us that too which I concurdon't want to screw stuff up -- `lag 05/18/2021 11:21AM

Concur on both counts! -- EDGEMAN 05/18/2021 11:13AM

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Yeah, I wasn't worried about them, saw a few, almost territorial... -- `lag 05/18/2021 10:51AM

The big ones are territorial. -- EDGEMAN 05/18/2021 11:14AM

Reef(er) sadness :^/ Reschedule?** -- `lag 05/18/2021 08:43AM

Next year? ** -- PhotoHokieNC 05/18/2021 10:38AM

On our first dive, my dive buddy promptly ran into a piece of staghorn

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