Friday, 24th July 2009
Potato bass
by Paul Hunter
Nine mile reef, Sodwana Bay, South Africa.
Equipment: Nikon D200
Paul Hunter
What can I say..I love sun shine the outdoors and mostly scuba diving. Diving is a passion of mine and the underwater photography just adds to it.
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Potato bass by Paul Hunter was photo of the day on Friday, 24th July 2009. It is tagged Fish, Underwater. You can leave a comment below.
15 Comments
Pauline Jones
Is that fish really that big or is it just the perspective?
su
Geez thats one big fish, never seen one before hope he was friendly! Congrats on potd.
Thomas Vignaud
A great shot, the light is very well captured and the fish is beautifull and huge. I don’t like yellow -or any color- wetsuit, but this is personal opinion
Marie Dunphy Harding
One great looking fish; the Divers’ not bad either !
sbl
What a cool photo. The fish is very striking.
Renee
Amazing shot!
David Lazar
Good work with this awesome underwater shot.
Love the human included.
mike
Good protection he has. It is hard to even see the eyes on him.
Anurag
Terrific use of perspective, from here it looks like those pirana like teeth can bite off the entire head of the diver!! makes me shudder. How big is the fish really Paul?
Jayne Pugh
Awesome fish – it looks bigger than you!
Dena
Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_grouper for some info on potato bass or potato gropers. They’re apparently very large (2 meters) and endangered. Thanks so very much for such a fantastic image from the deep!
Su
Since this shot I have seen other potato bass and they are very big indeed, What a sight.
Rajib Singha
Fantastic image!
renee
Nice shot.
Jean Auel
Looks like a forced perspective shot where the fish is actually closer than the guy..
Just sayin….