Grouper In Despair

On our way to a dive we came across a large Atlantic Goliath Grouper that probably had been caught by a sport fisherman and brought to the surface quickly and then released. By now though its buoyancy bladder was overinflated and it could not resubmerge without popping to the surface again.

The poor fish was completely exhausted and it almost seemed as if it knew we were trying to help it.