Mike:

There are a lot of locals in your area that can help.   Try contacting the
Broward Shell Club...they will be having a shell show...the first weekend in
February.
There will be many experts at the show...Pompano Beach Civic Center, 1801
N.E. 6th Street, Pompano Beach    Feb. 1st    12 p.. - 6 p.m., Feb. 2nd  10
a.m. - 6 p.m. and February 3rd  10 a.m. - 4 p.m.  FREE admission.

My husband has dove a lot of that area in the past also with some great
finds.
He will be at the show that weekend.

Welcome aboard.

Shellingly, Bobbi

mike gray wrote:

> Jordan Star wrote:
> >
> > Hello All
> > Lets not forget the classic (40 or so years old) 20 Thousand Leagues
> > Under the Sea by Jules Vern.  A large squid attacks the submarine
> > Nautilus.  (snip)
>
> I am new to the list and, as requested in the "welcome" post, will
> introduce myself. But first:
>
> The real classic is the 1915 version of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
> It was the first commercial use of underwater cinematography. Cast and
> crew all used Fleuss Davis rebreathers, the first commercially
> successful SCUBA.
>
> But mollusks hit their cinematographic peak in the 1942 "Reap the Wild
> Wind" with John Wayne, Rita Hayworth, Paulette Goddard, Raymond Massey,
> Charles Bickford, Ray Milland and a giant squid that kills the Duke. The
> squid won an Oscar! No kidding. (Special Effects)
>
> I have been a member of COA for a year. My collection, such as it is, is
> entirely self-collected, and entirely from a reef system we locals call
> the Boynton Ledge, about seventeen miles of South Florida reef running
> from the Boca Raton/Delray Beach line north to a point off the Lake
> Worth pier, at a depth of 60 to 130 feet
>
> I have about 135 species and have just started cataloging them.  I have
> a number of shells that I am unable to identify and hope to connect with
> a local experienced sheller that can help. I do not take live shells
> unless they are something I do not already have or they are markedly
> superior to what is already in my collection. I very much enjoy
> observing live molluscs at work and play on the reef.
>
> I have about 800 hours of bottom time on this stretch of reef and will
> be happy to share tips with other divers. If there are any locals that
> could help with some identification problems, I'd be much obliged.
>
> Now, back to lurk mode.
>
> mike gray

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Jim and Bobbi Cordy
Specializing in Self Collected Caribbean Species
Merritt Island Florida

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