We snorkeled with 6 over two mornings last March with Deep Blue Resort on Utila. I was on an SRI trip research trip also. They're more interesting, they bring in expert(s) and you assist with the research. The rest of the week we didn't see anything. Capt. Swin is one of the local experts at finding them. During peak weeks in their program they put on a spotter boat to locate them while you're doing your morning dives.
Me too!
I got to photograph and report a whale shark to the Ecocean data base. Now I get an email from Ecocean whenever someone else reports a siting of the same whale shark. I's waay cool and Deep Blue was fantastic.