yes we find chubs but here in Charleston usually they are all worn because our miocene-pleistocene formations are generally reformulated. sometimes we find formation outcrops where there are nicer chubs too. they are easy to differentiate from megalodons because megs don't have cusps at all, whereas on chubs they are like little serration bumps where the root and blade meet. angustidens have a more distinct separation between the cusps and the blade, like an obvious triangle sticking out of each side of the root / blade.

it was near Charleston SC

moving water piles similarly shaped and sized things together. ancient rivers during the ice age eroded previously deposited and fossilized teeth and pushed them into piles like this.

megalodon was such an incredible animal!

its tough to beat diving for megs in venice. one of my favorite places to go!

thank you for watching and for your comment!

there are other fossils including whales and ice age mammals, just not in this video. the shark teeth are beat up because they have been tossed around in the waves and flowing water over millions of years before I found them

welcome back!

i'm just an amateur collector so I don't guide tours.

thanks man

i love it there. if i ever moved anywhere besides SC it would be to SW Florida.

thanks for the id! i wish i could have done more but by the end of the week i was pretty sore.

@@blackriverfossils No problem and totally understand! Next time you are down feel free to reach out, I’ve been going diving down there a lot recently (I live in Tampa). Just went today will be going again next Sunday. Would love to dive with you and fossil diva someday!

@@DarkNinjaShark sounds good man! it'll probably be next year, depending on whether there are any big storms to churn up the bottom. this year there are many other bodies of water that need our attention. good luck on your dives!

@@blackriverfossils understanable! I tried to do the Meg ledge off NC earlier this year but it got stormed out… hoping to do that someday! If you get a chance I’d love if you took a peek at my channel, it was inspired by your videos, figured I should film and share my own fossil adventures too. I don’t post as often as I should but I’m trying to get better about it - cheers 🤙🏻

@@DarkNinjaShark i have heard that same story about being stormed out from so many people. how disappointing that must be! I've never done the meg ledge but I'm not nitrox certified so its not going to happen most likely. i watched your most recent venice video, good stuff congrats! I like how you can talk through your mask that's pretty cool. keep up the good work!

i don't want pity teeth but i guess that does happen sometimes. my theory with the anchor line is the captain navigates to GPS coordinates and drops the anchor right there, so you know you're usually gonna be on it at the bottom of the line. in black water rivers the anchor line is the only way to keep from being washed away from the boat by the current while you descend.

it was nice to dive with him again. now that he's grown up he doesn't come out as much. another guy on the boat found a mammoth tooth too but his was gigantic, the size I prefer my PB&J. It was truly better than a day at work!

I went shark tooth hunting today at peace river in Fl.. I was wondering the same thing.. maybe I’m just not looking in the right spots ? Not too sure I’m new to this

@@yochriswya The peace river is tough. Anywhere the public can access has been picked over for decades.

i don't know the reason for sure, but megalodon were gigantic animals so they probably had a large range. florida was likely a better environment for juveniles to mature. I know I find way more whale fossils up here in the carolinas than in Florida so it could be as simple as there was just more for the big sharks to eat here.

i should have swam slower I see it there now!

the water wasn't too deep where we were diving - only about 30 feet. i actually did see a small shark on day 2. I dropped off the boat first and when i got close to the bottom i saw him swim away. i tried to get my camera out but he was FAST! maybe he would have hung around longer if he was a little bigger but i think he knew he wasn't the top of the food chain. it was the first time i ever saw one down there.

i see it there now. DOH! nobody can find them all!

some scuba shops have private certification classes that are 1 on 1 with the instructor and that might be your best bet for matching up with a schedule. that's what I did when my son got certified because he did the classwork online and then did his checkout dives in the gulf when we went down for a week. i left some crust on some of the venice teeth I found over the past few years because diva has a point - land teeth don't have that and once you take it off, they look like all the others. I'm back to taking it off now. I have enough dead barnacles and shells in my meg drawer lol! she's proud of that meg she found this trip. it was her best one yet and its taken her several trips to get one. its probably awesome looking under all that but we'll never know!

That's awesome that people gathered around to watch the sand get pumped onto the beach to find teeth. talk about fresh off the boat!

i'm just an amateur collector so I don't sell my finds. thanks for watching!

you gotta look for the gravel layer for any chance of finding meg teeth around here.

Blue from the cooper huh? That's cool. They can be all kinds of colors from that river - my favorite are the copper/orange ones.

Love cottageville! Love Venice too. Thanks for dropping by and saying hi

I am he. Glad you were able to find some stuff!

thank you!

it comes off in the vinegar / water mix too

@@blackriverfossils I’ve heard people say it causes the teeth to get rough and dimpled when vinegar (white or apple cider) is used and can discolor them… have you had any issues? I have a few I need to clean but I’m conflicted on how now lol. I used to use the Apple cider vinegar 50/50 too

@@DarkNinjaShark actually that's part of one of the next couple venice videos i am gonna do but since you asked i use 50/50 apple cider vinegar and water and before I put any teeth in there i throw a shell in and let it sit overnight to take the bite out of the vinegar so it is gentler on the teeth. test it out on a broken tooth to see how you like it but i've had good luck with that method.

@@blackriverfossils awesome, thanks for the tip, I like the idea of throwing a shell in to take some of the bite out of the vinegar. I’ve got 6 teeth from the 4th of July to clean lol (video will go up eventually - I’m so far behind on my content haha)

@@DarkNinjaShark lol i hear ya about being behind on content. I have some stuff that's been sitting around for several years. Its hard to collect AND post videos regularly! I hope the cleaning idea works for you too

I get that but I like to see the teeth in all their glory. diva's are all still encrusted!

those were the best of times! I should have made t-shirts to commemorate the events. you know what's awesome? I STILL get emails asking when we will start that again and how to participate. yes it was a little posterior in her hand. I think she put it in her video.

@@blackriverfossils ah the good ol' days 😁. Lots of good memories for sure. I miss seeing everyone.

@@snow3017 me too man. maybe someday we can get the band back together for a Lee Creek pit-stravaganza and after party at El Tapatio