Basking Sharks

[simonspear]

I've managed to always miss them but I'm doing some diving in Cornwall this year, so maybe I'll get lucky this time!!

Amx do Mann Scuba Divers organise trips out to see the baskers if/when they are sighted, or do they just dive/snorkel with them if they come across them while out there?

Cheers, Simon

 

[Ishie]

I'd love to see one too, though not in murky water.

They occasionally move through the California waters imitating GWs and scaring the bejeezus out of kayakers by sticking their dorsal fin out of the water ala Jaws. I think they stick fairly far offshore though.

 

[amanxman]

I've managed to always miss them but I'm doing some diving in Cornwall this year, so maybe I'll get lucky this time!!

Amx do Mann Scuba Divers organise trips out to see the baskers if/when they are sighted, or do they just dive/snorkel with them if they come across them while out there?

Cheers, Simon

Hi Simon,

I'm pretty sure they will could organise specific Basking Shark trips - there's no guarantee that they'll be found, but come the right season, I guess that they could go searching!

I'd recommend getting in touch with them to see what they can organise.

You can contact them for Basking Shark Diving at http://www.mannscubadivers.co.uk/contact-mann-scuba-divers.html

No doubt they can help you better than me!!

happy diving
amx

 

[RICoder]

Sounds like you all live across the pond, but there are Basking Sharks located off the coast of Rhode Island as well. A couple of the local shops will take you out looking for them, but it is very seasonal for both sighting and temperature reasons.

 

[Jai Bar]

A couple of days ago a basking shark was found entangled in a fishing net, near the town of Haifa, Israel.
The shark was in bad state of exahustion, at shallow water about a hundred meters from shore. Volunteers managed to cut it free from nets and it swam away.

Today its carcass was found on the beach about 2km from where it was released

What an amazing creature, the fourth ever observed in Israeli coastal waters in the last four decades, and its dead...