Great barracuda

Facts

• Long silver body with a pointed snout, a jutting lower jaw, dark bars on the upper side and black spots on the lower sides.^[2]
• Curious. It often follows snorkelers and divers, usually alone, and hunts by ambush during the day.^[2]
• Attacks are rare. Most happen when it goes for a speared fish or mistakes something shiny, like a dive knife, for a fish.^[2]
• Large barracuda can carry ciguatera toxin, which causes food poisoning.^[2]

Where it's been reported (10)

From the sources on each dive site's page. Sightings are never guaranteed.

• Ambar Wreck · Aguadilla & Northwest“schools of snappers and jacks, blue tangs, barracuda” (PSAI (Professional Scuba Association International))
• Cayo Diablo · Fajardo & La Cordillera“barracuda” (Aqua Adventure)
• Black Wall · Guánica & La Parguera“bar jacks, schooling Atlantic spadefish, great barracuda, Caribbean reef sharks, flamingo tongue snails” (Paradise Scuba & Snorkeling Center)
• Efra's Wall · Guánica & La Parguera“nurse shark (2015 baseline); great barracuda” (Puerto Rico DRNA / NOAA CRCP)
• Forest · Guánica & La Parguera“spotted drum, barracuda, sergeant majors, a resident pufferfish” (Paradise Scuba & Snorkeling Center)
• Old Buoy · Guánica & La Parguera“spiny lobster and Spanish lobster; schooling bar jacks, barracudas and mackerel” (Paradise Scuba & Snorkeling Center)
• The Wall (Guánica) · Guánica & La Parguera“sharks, rays, barracuda, turtles” (Copamarina Beach Resort & Spa)
• Las Carmelitas · Isla de Mona & Monito“nurse shark, schoolmaster, dog snapper, tiger grouper and great barracuda recorded on the 2009 survey” (García-Sais J.R. et al., UPR-Mayagüez, for DRNA/NOAA (NOAA Institutional Repository noaa:557))
• Playa Mujeres · Isla de Mona & Monito“great barracuda, horse-eye and black jacks, rainbow runner” (García-Sais J.R. et al., UPR-Mayagüez, for DRNA/NOAA (NOAA Institutional Repository noaa:557))
• Playa Esperanza (Vieques) · Vieques“manatees (occasional), barracudas, nurse sharks” (Fodor's Travel)