Trip Report MY Ghazala Explorer and north Red Sea, Hurghada to Straits of Tiran

[nippurmagnum]

Very interesting experiences with the oceanic white tips. The operator in Kona did not require you and the other divers to exit the water upon seeing the whitetip? I read a trip report in the Hawaii forum that Jack's Diving Locker pulled their divers out of the water at the 20-minute mark upon sighting a whitetip during one of the black water dives.

That dive was with Jacks, actually. There were two divemasters in the water with us. During the briefing before the dives, one of the divemasters said that if an oceanic whitetip showed up, he would pull “his” divers out of the water. The other divemaster, a young woman, laughed and said that she would consider herself lucky to have an oceanic white tip on the dive and would keep her group in the water and enjoy the encounter. I asked to be in her group, as did my daughter. When the shark appeared, the male divemaster stayed in the water after all, because his male pride had been wounded. The white tip was a juvenile, so maybe that was a factor too. Anyway, the white tip was not particularly aggressive but it was also definitely not timid.

 

[Cornbread O'Malley]

The other divemaster, a young woman, laughed and said that she would consider herself lucky to have an oceanic white tip on the dive and would keep her group in the water and enjoy the encounter. I asked to be in her group, as did my daughter. When the shark appeared, the male divemaster stayed in the water after all, because his male pride had been wounded.

Ha! That is funny.