While offshore to capture imagery for an ongoing production project we stumbled upon a curious octopus. Videographer Joe Kistel was filming and as soon as diver Kim Fair approached the octopus darted over to greet him. See the intense encounter at the link below.Video:
A Curious Octopus Encounter
Underwater Reef Imagery From Press Box Reef And More
6-7-14Below are some underwater images and a video clip captured this past weekend while offshore scuba diving Jacksonville reefs. A big thanks to fellow divers Larry Davis and Ed Kalakauskis.Press Box Reef:
[nggallery id=140]Culvert Reef:
[nggallery id=141]Open Barge Reef:
[nggallery id=142]Large Shark swim by video clip (at Open Barge Reef):
Goliath Grouper Sighting At New Reef Site
5-31-14 TISIRI divers Joe Kistel and Larry Davis made a trip offshore to capture some updated visual content of Jacksonville Florida's three newest artificial reef sites. These three reefs lie roughly 12 miles east of Ponte Vedra Beach. During the second dive, just before returning to the surface,...
Read MoreLarge Bull Shark Encounter Offshore Jacksonville
5-18-14While attempting to collect underwater imagery today for an upcoming production effort, a large female Bull Shark (or possibly a Sandbar Shark) decided to circle us a several times. The brief video clip shows some footage from two different camera divers; Joe Kistel (using a full-frame camera) Ed...
Read MoreAn Octopus Decides To Take His Own Picture
While diving the A7 wreckage location the day we had A7 pilot Bob Besal aboard, we ran into this somewhat vain octopus. Watch as he gets into the postion he wants and then attempts to reach out and take his own pictures.Octopus are truly amazing creatures!
Read MoreTriggerfish Attack Camera Equipment
During an investigation of aircraft wreckage offshore St. Augustine Florida, TISIRI cameraman Joe Kistel momentarily leaves a video camera recording unattended. The video camera was recording for approximately three minutes. It wasn't until the footage was later reviewed when it was learned what was happening throughout this time period. See the video below:Curious Grey triggerfish thought they should try to taste the camera housing. In particular they were most interested in the lever for a light filter just to the left of the lens. Throughout the video you can hear the lever being chomped on as the fish attack. One particular fish decides to bite the lens directly, yikes!
Read MorePlane Crash Investigation; Two Offshore Downed Aircraft
TISIRI has encountered two separate unexplained plane crash sites offshore St. Augustine Florida recently. We conducted a preliminary investigation of both wreckage locations this past week and collected the imagery below. The first group of pictures and video is from a crash that included two Lycoming piston engines. The later group of pictures contains aircraft components that we have not been able to identify yet. Please review the pictures and let us know if you can provide any further insight in the comments section at the bottom of this page.
Read MoreStrange New Sea Bass Behavior
While investigating a plane wreck site this past weekend TISIRI's Joe Kistel made a strange observation. He noticed what looked like a partially buried black sea bass that was lying on its side. Kistel assumed this was a dead sea bass that had become buried by scavengers but notice the eye exposed was following his (Kistel's) every move. Kistel then thought perhaps the fish was ill as there have been reports of sickly grouper sightings lately and continued on with wreck investigation efforts after taking a few photos. Several minutes later he encountered another buried the same way in sand and captured a few more photos.
Read MoreGiant Jellyfish Encounter
Fall 2011While collecting video and photos of the intruder aircraft reef site off the coast of Saint Augustine Florida, TISIRI's Joe Kistel was able to capture this footage and pictures of a very large moon Jellyfish. Even though Jellyfish have stinging nematocysts on their tentacles, used to...
Read MoreLarge Nurse Shark Encounter
TISIRI divers Kalakauskis and Kistel encounter a large female nurse shark while collected pictures and video of Taylor Concrete Reef offshore St. Augustine Florida for TISIRI's Reefs Revealed project. Watch in the video below how the shark almost runs completely into Kistel while he is recording.
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