Megalodon Shark Tooth Diving to Beat the Summer Heat

Summer in the south is hot and there's no better way to beat the heat than prehistoric shark tooth diving and that's exactly what Diva and me have been doing. There is a few minutes of near heat-stroke suffering while we gear up and the sun beats down on us as we struggle to stuff our sweaty selves into wetsuits, but all that ends the second we hit the water. We slowly swim down the sand banks into the dark depths and forget about the world above to concentrate on the pleasure at hand - finding giant shark teeth that litter the bottom. The currents have eroded them from the geologic formations that originally contained them, and they lie in the algae and muck covered river floor, perilously exposed to the natural rock tumbler. The fast flowing currents constantly shuffle around the bottom, eventually grinding everything to nothing so it is our task to save the fossils before that fate befalls them. We climb over piles of fallen trees, swim down into dark holes not knowing what is below. Its usually a big catfish, but sometimes its a snake and its possible that it could be an alligator. We have to push that to the back of our minds, we are not gator food but this is their habitat so it pays to be mindful. But seriously if they wanted us we would never know until it was too late. It brings me peace to know that I am gamey and foul tasting, gorging steadily with Taco Bell and ice cream. No self respecting alligator would stuff itself with junk food when there are non-GMO bass and organic catfish readily available. And there's no way a scuba tank is easily swallowed - unless you're a megalodon that is, and that's what I get my mind back to. Megalodon teeth, giant awesome fossils of the greatest predator that ever lived. That's the prize and I actually found some on this dive! There not as big as some I have dug recently, but all I had to do was swim and pick these up so its hard to beat that kind of convenience. I also found an ice age horse tooth, some mako, sand tiger, modern tiger, and even some angustidens teeth, which is a shark much older than megalodon, the evoluationary grandfather of the meg. Angustidens get big too with teeth reaching 5 inches, and diving is where its at to find those, though neither of us found one that big on this dive. It was super fun but it doesn't take long to breathe a whole tank and before we knew it, it was time to surface, lest we run out of air and prematurely begin our own process of fossilization.