I just saw something REALLY cool!

[East Coast Hustle]

So there are literally hundreds of mahi mahi schooling around the boat right now. Our junior engineer caught 5 of them in about 15 minutes. He's been beheading them and then rinsing the blood off the deck with predictable results.

Those results being that I just got to watch a rather large whitetip shark (I'd guess it was 8-10 feet) come rocketing up from the deep and eat one of the larger mahi mahi that was swimming around in our stern lights. That was some serious National Geographic shit!

[Don Coyote]

So there are literally hundreds of mahi mahi schooling around the boat right now. Our junior engineer caught 5 of them in about 15 minutes. He's been beheading them and then rinsing the blood off the deck with predictable results.

Those results being that I just got to watch a rather large whitetip shark (I'd guess it was 8-10 feet) come rocketing up from the deep and eat one of the larger mahi mahi that was swimming around in our stern lights. That was some serious National Geographic shit!

Sounds fucking epic, and I bet no one caught footage of it.

[East Coast Hustle]

Nah, my phone doesn't work down here so I keep it on airplane mode and leave it in my cabin as an alarm clock so I wouldn't have been able to catch it even if I had had enough warning that it was going to happen. Probably never get that lucky again but I'll start bringing it out on deck with me at night when I go out for a smoke from now on.

[Richter]

Damn, nice.  Life just goes zero to awesome sometimes, especially when nature/ocean are involved.

[navkat]

I would have "emptied my orange sack" in my pance from terror.

[Telarus]

Bad Ass

[Luna]

I would have "emptied my orange sack" in my pance from terror.

Yeah, truth be told, pretty much this, right here.

Awesome and terror can, sometimes, go hand in hand.

[navkat]

Right??? I'd be like "Shark does NOT BELONG UP HERE."
Something about Jaws making himself comfortable in my personal space, grabbing a snack.

[East Coast Hustle]

Well it wasn't like I was in the water with them. And any shark that can leap up over our gunwale to take a bite out of me probably deserves to win.

[East Coast Hustle]

I told the captain about it this morning and without missing a beat he turns to me with this dead-serious look in his eyes and says "We're going to need a bigger boat."

[Cramulus]

 

that's really awesome

I'd love to see more pix of what the world looks like from your boat

[East Coast Hustle]

Unfortunately when we're working at AUTEC I'm very limited in when and where I can take pictures, and what I can take them of. The stuff we have hanging off the stern for this job is classified so at best they'd throw my phone overboard if they caught me taking pics, at worst I could be barred from AUTEC and/or even prosecuted. But when we head back north next month I'll try to get some good pics. Our next job is going to be 130 miles offshore out by Hudson Canyon in the middle of february so I'll probably be able to get some good pics of the times this job is the exact opposite of fun.

[Kai]

I told the captain about it this morning and without missing a beat he turns to me with this dead-serious look in his eyes and says "We're going to need a bigger boat."

Props if he turned right around and started singing "Spanish Ladies".

[Dysfunctional Cunt]

mmmmmmm mahi mahi....  you can't blame the shark.   

I'm surprised there aren't cameras monitoring the water around the boat to begin with.  It's a research vessel right?  Maybe I misunderstood. 

[The Good Reverend Roger]

So there are literally hundreds of mahi mahi schooling around the boat right now. Our junior engineer caught 5 of them in about 15 minutes. He's been beheading them and then rinsing the blood off the deck with predictable results.

You guys have been murdering Central Africans and LAUGHING about it? 

YOU'RE BAD PEOPLE!