Venice Beach
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Venice Beach, off the west coast of Florida, is a graveyard of prehistoric remnants of ancient predators, specifically sharks. This area is famous for its black shark teeth fossils and, if you’re lucky, large megalodon tooth fossils. You’ll see beaches full of folks “panning“ for fossils here every weekend.
You’ll see the typical Gulf of Mexico Caribbean fish species like stingrays, snapper, triggerfish, hogfish, and possible sandbar, blacknose, and bonnethead sharks.
Dive Activity
Potential Wildlife Sightings
Wildlife Sightings are Based on User Generated Content
Shutterstock-Shane Myers Photography
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Total number of species approx.: 7000
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Crab
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Total number of species approx.: 120
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Flounder
79 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 150
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Sweetlips and Grunts
57 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 250
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Grouper/Basslets
49 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 125
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Gurnards
44 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 30
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Stonefish
21 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 40
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Triggerfish
16 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 2
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Tarpon
15 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 8
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Bannerfish
14 Sightings
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Total number of species approx.: 80
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Stingrays
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Total number of species approx.: 40
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Jackfish
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