Rio Diving Report (wednesday)

[Ted Budion]

After being grounded for 3 months--due to a broken leg--wednesday was my home-coming . Conditions weren't that good, calm seas, but a fresh temp, 21° on the surface and 18° below 12 m. Viz was soapy: eventough we could make out the bottom outline at 10 m, it was very blurred . Buddies Luisinho, Marcelo (who I hadn't seen in 20 years) and I made a run to Rasa and Redonda Islands, off Rio.

Not much fish movement, but the dusky groupers were there , hidden in dark and deep cracks around the thermocline level (13 m). I got a 9 kg dusky, that took me 1 hour to extract (with a little help from my friend... and a cut to the head after hitting a rock ) and a 1 kg comb grouper. Luisinho got another 8 kg/18 lb. dusky, a 800 g sargo, another comb of same size, 4 slipper lobsters and a couple of nice octopi. Marcelo got himself a 6 kg dusky, a 3 kg almaco jack and a stringer full of octopi.

Not bad at all. The grand finale was to have a late lunch at the club
with the some of our own catch . That's me on black suit and Luisinho.
Merry Xmas to you all.

[miles]

Hiya

LOVELY fish!!!

Good to see you back in the water!!!

Regards
miles

[Marwan]

Nice fish Ted,
these look exactly like the groupers we have in the med

[Ted Budion]

They're the same fish species (Epinephelus marginatus). In The West Atlantic they're found only from latitudes 20°S to 39°S (SE Brazil to Bahía Blanca, Argentina). The big ones are more abundant in Southern Brazil.

[Asturven]

Ted,

Good to know that you are back in the water.

Nice Groupers.

Cheers

Ivan