those were the best of times! I should have made t-shirts to commemorate the events. you know what's awesome? I STILL get emails asking when we will start that again and how to participate. yes it was a little posterior in her hand. I think she put it in her video.
Nice dive,we used to find nice stuff down in Cottageville. We saw you a few times by the ladder.Im back up north. Sucks up here. Good stuff as always, be safe 😎
You did good on those dives! I am trying to line up a course that meshes with my schedule because I am wanting to do some SCUBA hunting in the Florida rivers. Venice will have to get some love also, but I am hoping for some pristine fossils washed out of the layer in some rivers once I get certified. I had to comment on Diva’s video that I knew she would be leaving hers as found! I’m equally unsurprised by your inclination to see what the tooth really looks like. I likely would also! Looking forward to your next video!
some scuba shops have private certification classes that are 1 on 1 with the instructor and that might be your best bet for matching up with a schedule. that's what I did when my son got certified because he did the classwork online and then did his checkout dives in the gulf when we went down for a week. i left some crust on some of the venice teeth I found over the past few years because diva has a point - land teeth don't have that and once you take it off, they look like all the others. I'm back to taking it off now. I have enough dead barnacles and shells in my meg drawer lol! she's proud of that meg she found this trip. it was her best one yet and its taken her several trips to get one. its probably awesome looking under all that but we'll never know!
yes we find chubs but here in Charleston usually they are all worn because our miocene-pleistocene formations are generally reformulated. sometimes we find formation outcrops where there are nicer chubs too. they are easy to differentiate from megalodons because megs don't have cusps at all, whereas on chubs they are like little serration bumps where the root and blade meet. angustidens have a more distinct separation between the cusps and the blade, like an obvious triangle sticking out of each side of the root / blade.
@@blackriverfossils I’ve heard people say it causes the teeth to get rough and dimpled when vinegar (white or apple cider) is used and can discolor them… have you had any issues? I have a few I need to clean but I’m conflicted on how now lol. I used to use the Apple cider vinegar 50/50 too
@@DarkNinjaShark actually that's part of one of the next couple venice videos i am gonna do but since you asked i use 50/50 apple cider vinegar and water and before I put any teeth in there i throw a shell in and let it sit overnight to take the bite out of the vinegar so it is gentler on the teeth. test it out on a broken tooth to see how you like it but i've had good luck with that method.
@@blackriverfossils awesome, thanks for the tip, I like the idea of throwing a shell in to take some of the bite out of the vinegar. I’ve got 6 teeth from the 4th of July to clean lol (video will go up eventually - I’m so far behind on my content haha)
@@DarkNinjaShark lol i hear ya about being behind on content. I have some stuff that's been sitting around for several years. Its hard to collect AND post videos regularly! I hope the cleaning idea works for you too
We were here on vacation and we booked a charter called Top2Bottom. its very convenient because they have the boat, the bring the tanks, and know where to go. totally worth the price.
Just across the state from me. It's really weird how we can't even find modern teeth on the east coast. The old phosphate mines are where the old-timers used to find the really big and beautiful teeth. Too bad they don't let anyone search them anymore.
Excellent hunt. I’ve been waiting, watching some of your older videos, I never get tired of watching. Thank you.
thanks so much for watching and for your comment!
So awesome. Definitely a bucket list dive. Great video.
thank you!
Ah, brings back fond memories of "RiverDiggerFest"! Is a little micro posterior in Diva's hand at 5:50 ? Great colors on the tooth at 8:30 too.
those were the best of times! I should have made t-shirts to commemorate the events. you know what's awesome? I STILL get emails asking when we will start that again and how to participate. yes it was a little posterior in her hand. I think she put it in her video.
@@blackriverfossils ah the good ol' days 😁. Lots of good memories for sure. I miss seeing everyone.
@@snow3017 me too man. maybe someday we can get the band back together for a Lee Creek pit-stravaganza and after party at El Tapatio
Nice dive,we used to find nice stuff down in Cottageville. We saw you a few times by the ladder.Im back up north. Sucks up here. Good stuff as always, be safe 😎
Love cottageville! Love Venice too. Thanks for dropping by and saying hi
Oh man. That looks so nice. I gotta get back down to venice. Glad you guys did well. :)
the conditions were awesome! best I have seen in 20 years at least.
@@blackriverfossils Just rubbin' it in. Hearless. ;)
You did good on those dives! I am trying to line up a course that meshes with my schedule because I am wanting to do some SCUBA hunting in the Florida rivers. Venice will have to get some love also, but I am hoping for some pristine fossils washed out of the layer in some rivers once I get certified. I had to comment on Diva’s video that I knew she would be leaving hers as found! I’m equally unsurprised by your inclination to see what the tooth really looks like. I likely would also! Looking forward to your next video!
some scuba shops have private certification classes that are 1 on 1 with the instructor and that might be your best bet for matching up with a schedule. that's what I did when my son got certified because he did the classwork online and then did his checkout dives in the gulf when we went down for a week. i left some crust on some of the venice teeth I found over the past few years because diva has a point - land teeth don't have that and once you take it off, they look like all the others. I'm back to taking it off now. I have enough dead barnacles and shells in my meg drawer lol! she's proud of that meg she found this trip. it was her best one yet and its taken her several trips to get one. its probably awesome looking under all that but we'll never know!
Good hunt. As usual you get the good ones. Lucky duck. Steph did good too
we had a blast. she got the tooth of the day tho.
@@blackriverfossilsglad she got a good one
so good but MAN i wish youd left the barnacles on that one!
I get that but I like to see the teeth in all their glory. diva's are all still encrusted!
How do you clean all the super encrusted ones?
i soak them in a vinegar and water mix. i explain it in this video ruclips.net/video/r-2mROPM5Q0/видео.html
Do you ever find Chubutensis? If so, how do you differentiate them from megalodon and angustidens?
yes we find chubs but here in Charleston usually they are all worn because our miocene-pleistocene formations are generally reformulated. sometimes we find formation outcrops where there are nicer chubs too. they are easy to differentiate from megalodons because megs don't have cusps at all, whereas on chubs they are like little serration bumps where the root and blade meet. angustidens have a more distinct separation between the cusps and the blade, like an obvious triangle sticking out of each side of the root / blade.
What’s your favorite way to clean the Coraline algae off the teeth?
it comes off in the vinegar / water mix too
@@blackriverfossils I’ve heard people say it causes the teeth to get rough and dimpled when vinegar (white or apple cider) is used and can discolor them… have you had any issues? I have a few I need to clean but I’m conflicted on how now lol. I used to use the Apple cider vinegar 50/50 too
@@DarkNinjaShark actually that's part of one of the next couple venice videos i am gonna do but since you asked i use 50/50 apple cider vinegar and water and before I put any teeth in there i throw a shell in and let it sit overnight to take the bite out of the vinegar so it is gentler on the teeth. test it out on a broken tooth to see how you like it but i've had good luck with that method.
@@blackriverfossils awesome, thanks for the tip, I like the idea of throwing a shell in to take some of the bite out of the vinegar. I’ve got 6 teeth from the 4th of July to clean lol (video will go up eventually - I’m so far behind on my content haha)
@@DarkNinjaShark lol i hear ya about being behind on content. I have some stuff that's been sitting around for several years. Its hard to collect AND post videos regularly! I hope the cleaning idea works for you too
Do you offer guided dives for a price?
We were here on vacation and we booked a charter called Top2Bottom. its very convenient because they have the boat, the bring the tanks, and know where to go. totally worth the price.
Just across the state from me.
It's really weird how we can't even find modern teeth on the east coast. The old phosphate mines are where the old-timers used to find the really big and beautiful teeth.
Too bad they don't let anyone search them anymore.
so many quarries have closed their pits to collectors over the years. I bet all of them would claim "liability concerns". so sad.
How deep is the water?
around 30 feet deep
Did I hear Capt Jamie?
I like Capt Jamie and have been on his boat a bunch of times but this visit we went with Top2Bottom because they do 3 tanks while Jamie only does 2.
@@blackriverfossils Ok. At any rate, thanks for the years of great videos.