Scorpionfish Ambush - Ana C - Palm Beach - 11Sep2022

Anyone who dives regularly in South Florida or the Caribbean has seen scorpionfish. If you haven't, you're not paying close enough attention! I see them on almost every dive. However, this is the first time I was ever lucky enough to see one strike.

This was on the deck of the Ana Cecilia off of Palm Beach. This guy or gal appears to have snagged some sort of worm or larvae that was drifting past. This was at the end of a minute long video where I watched this fish work its way slowly along the wreck. Given that you rarely see them moving, I kept my GoPro on him/her just in case. Glad I did! The strike happens so quickly that I wasn't exactly sure what had happened until I went back and reviewed the video.

Enjoy!