Photographer and Goliath Grouper - Neatorama

Photo: Michael Patrick O'Neill

Michael Patrick O'Neill took this fantastic photo of a photographer/diver and a Goliath grouper (Epinephelus itajara) - it won the People in Nature Award at the Nature's Best 2007 Photography Competition.

Link - Thanks Lee!

Suddenly I am hungry. Grouper is the best fish i have ever tasted!

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That's one big fish! I had no idea groupers got that enormous!

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Mmm, grouper.

That said, I never want to encounter one in a non-cooked or non-filet form.

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Check out the other pictures--they're all really good. And if you look closely at the iguana picture, you'll see Jesus between its eyes.

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mmmmmmm......... radioactive waste byproduct. blaghahrhrghr.....

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Grouper and his crew.

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The Goliath Grouper used to be called the Jewfish.

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I am imagining the fight this fish would give if he were hooked by a fisherman.

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That honestly looks like a scene out of a sci-fi/horror/fantasy movie.

A swarm of small fish gathers, and a huge, monstrous fish emerges from it to consume all.

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i think i would need a change of wet suite after seing that huge fish...

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i think i would need a change of wet suite after seeing that huge fish...

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Holy cow- I thought that was Photoshopped at first.

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Marine animals terrify me....

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Nice. Looks like it was edited.

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I was on that dive with him. That's exactly what it looked like. The photo has NOT been manipulated.

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I hate to see something so beautiful on the end of a hook. This is a gentle giant and if I were a little fellow I too would hang around him.

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