Found My Best Meg To Date - Twice In One

[FossilFreak]

First of all - I have not posted a trip report in over a year, mostly due to laziness/being too busy). Here is a brief rundown.

Last year, I was able to get in several hunting trips in:

1. I went to GMR last spring and found a really nice small great white (less than 1”, but beautiful condition and a nice light blue color).
   
2. I also went to Haverlock a couple times. I found one worn 2” meg and a 2.5” lower great white that has just a little bit of root damage. Also found small teeth and a couple of mastadon tooth fragments.
   
3. I went to GMR another time and ran into a couple of people who found a pretty nice meg. I found a few decent teeth as well.
   
4. I was also able to go to GMR with a few friends later in the year after a tropical storm had brought the water up by 10’ for over a week. I think we got there one day after the water had gotten down, but we still did pretty well. Between the three of us, each found a nice great white, and I also found about a three inch meg that was in decent shape. We did very little sifting, most of our best finds were right on the sandbars.
   
5. I finished up my dive certification in September and dove in Venice later that month and in December with Captain Jamie of Aristakat Charters aristakatcharters.yolasite.com. I did ok, found some worn makos. But I also got to meet some other divers like earthdog and Scottie.
   
6. Also in December my cousins and I hit the Peace River with Mark Renz. It was fun. I found about ¾ of a 3” meg, a three toed horse tooth, an alligator tooth, and a horse hoof.
   

Anyway, I will try to add galleries and post pictures of some of that stuff over the next few months.

Yesterday, I made it back to Venice. I did four more dives with Jamie. I got to meet some more great people as well. My diving skills need to improve still, but I had a great day. My first dive did not start very well, it just took me a few minutes to get back into it. I think my air consumption was terrible. My second dive went much better. Within 5 minutes or so, I found probably my best meg to date (about 3" but in pretty good shape)

and then blew it out of the water 5 minutes later with this 4 1/2” near perfect meg.

I also found one large mammoth tooth fragment

and some smaller or broken megs.

Other people on the boat did well too. There was a beautiful sea biscuit found on the first dive by a dive instructor at a local dive shop,

a couple of nice large makos, several megs several horse/bison teeth, several mammoth plates and about ¼ of a juvenile mammoth tooth.

I can’t wait to go again, but I think it will be a while.

[Scylla]

Sounds like a good year!

[gwbh]

Cool finds, looking forward to getting certified to dive this summer

[Lee Taylor]

nice specimens Fossil Freak. thanks for sharing. i have some fond memories of Venice. will be heading to Venice in July

here is a vid I took of a good day in Venice. I was waiting to be picked up by Jamie's famous fossilin boat

[sixgill pete]

Great finds! When you say Haverlock, I presume you meant Havelock?

[FossilFreak]

Pete.

Yes, Havelock, not Haverlock. Sorry spelling is not one of my strengths.

[iamsharky]

Great finds!!

[earthdog]

That 4.25" Megalodon tooth is beautiful. Make sure you don't use pure apple cider vinegar when cleaning it up. You don't want to bleach it. I would go with 1 part apple cider vinegar to 3 parts water. It will take longer, but shouldn't bleach the enamel. Way to go !