I saw a trigger fish!

[triplefin]

Not very exciting you may think having read the title. However this was off the UK south coast.

Diving off Scimiter yesterday we did the SS Binnendijk 27m. We were a little early so the current was still running and most of the pics of it were blurred as it was difficult to stay still enough to take a pic and the bl@@dy thing kept moving away also with viz at best 4m I didnt get a decent pic.

I was absolutley amazed to see it and quite lucky to get a sighting. Apparently they are occasionallysighted on and off round the coasts of the UK or caught but a favourite haunt for a couple of months of the year at least is the Royal Adalaide which is a bit further along the coast.

Lots more info here Triggerfish Balistes capriscus (British Marine Life Study Society) if anyone is interested.
So all you guys who decided not to dive this weekend cos Smudge wsnt doing the M2, bet you'r gutted now eh.... see what you missed

[DIVE BUDDHA]

well im well suprised at you seeing a trigger fish, triplefin!!
the picture looks good though !!

[Justin Owen]

i have to laugh at some of the mags saying these are "occasional" visitors to the south coast when the weathers warm... i spotted one on the segontium 7 miles off-shore of anglesey and had this p1ss taken out of me by everyone on the boat all the way back to treaddur bay... we then did a dive on the misery (missouri) and there were about six of them sat on the bow!

beautiful fish, nasty little bu55ers tho...!

[Adrian Kelland]

I saw one off Shoreham about 10 years back. I thought it was an odd kind of flat fish at first. It was laying on its side under a ledge.

Great pic Jane.

Adrian

[Foggy]

I am not jealous or anything, but....... well don't think you're getting any chrimbo prezzies!


LOL, Paul

[recurve]

Originally Posted by Justin Owen

beautiful fish, nasty little bu55ers tho...!

Like this one, assaulting swmbo?

[John Gulliver]

Triggerfish (Balistes capriscus) sightings are far from rare in the UK.
I read somewhere that there is now a resident population under Swanage pier. Unfortunately, I can't find the reference but there are lots of reports of sightings here:
Triggerfish Balistes capriscus (British Marine Life Study Society)
By the way, a lone specimen was caught by commercial fishermen here on the west coast of Sweden a couple of months ago. It had presumably followed with the Gulf Stream from the English Chanel owing to the unusually warm summer and high sea temperautures we enjoyed this year.

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by John Gulliver

Triggerfish (Balistes capriscus) sightings are far from rare in the UK.

Now that's just rubbing salt in the wound!
I was just envious of people who had seen them, now you spoil it by saying they aren't even rare!

I'm off to sulk! Its just not fair, I demand to see one on my next dive! (now that would be rare, as I expect not many have been sighted in Stoney Cove!)


LOL, Paul

[John Gulliver]

Originally Posted by Foggy

Now that's just rubbing salt in the wound!
I was just envious of people who had seen them, now you spoil it by saying they aren't even rare!

I'm off to sulk! Its just not fair, I demand to see one on my next dive! (now that would be rare, as I expect not many have been sighted in Stoney Cove!)


LOL, Paul

Ha-ha! I'm envious too, never having seen a triggerfish in non-tropical waters.

[Stesh]

Originally Posted by triplefin

I saw a trigger fish!

I can beat that!

I saw Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen in W.H.Smiths the other week!



P.S. He looks shorter in real life.