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!

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!

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.

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.

Fall 2011 While 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 capture prey (often small fish), these juvenile [...]