Venice man finds massive shark tooth on dive
Massive Shark Tooth Found By ABC7 Staff | May 1, 2021 at 8:56 PM EDT - Updated May 5 at 10:01 AM
VENICE, Fla. (WWSB) - Finding shark teeth is part of the culture in Venice. Sometimes people trudge the beach for them, others take boats and go diving.
David Ousley is part of the second group - and during a dive last week, he found a six-inch tooth that he says belongs to a megalodon.
“When I pulled it out of the sand, it was just so big that it took a while for me to process it,” Ousley said. “I thought it was fake, I thought it was a plant.”
UpdatedThu, Feb 18, 2021 at 11:55 am ET
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Two divers from Aquanutz Scuba Diving Charters discovered two intact Columbian mammoth tusks in the Gulf waters off the Venice coast. (Courtesy of Ryan Picou)
Blair Morrow and Ryan Picou carry a mammoth tusk uncovered in the Gulf of Mexico. (Blair Morrow)
Blair Morrow shows off a portion of the mammoth tusk she found in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Venice in November. (Courtesy of Blair Morrow)
A piece of a mammoth tusk found in the Gulf of Mexico. (Courtesy of Ryan Picou)
VENICE, FL Two scuba divers made the finds of a lifetime on separate diving trips: two intact Columbian mammoth tusks in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Venice.