sjspeck:
I've seen videos of these dives. Awesome!! It's on my wish list!!
I'd also like to take a trip see Hamerheads.
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I've seen videos of these dives. Awesome!! It's on my wish list!!
I'd also like to take a trip see Hamerheads.
robbcayman
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The tiger and some of those bulls looked pregnant. The scariest part of that would be exiting the water, because you couldn't keep your eye on them. I would not like entering or exiting for that, matter due to vulnerability. At times it looked a little out of control with the divers making aggressive postures towards the sharks. To be honest, there were too many sharks for my liking.
scuba pirate
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Yeah I was about to say the first few sharks in that Video are BULLS, you can tell because of the short stumpy thick body. The Tigers have a more stretched out look to them and their tail tends to taper off towards the end.
frankc420
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The pucker factor would be quite high...
Bulls, Tigers, Silvertips, Grey Reefs... All very cool. But the vid raises a few questions for me:
1. If this was shot in Fiji, what happened to the Fijian government ban on shark feeding? There have long been concerns that feeding just primes local shark populations to swarm to the hooks when the Taiwanese long-liners come through looking for fin.
2. Just how much damage are these guys doing to the coral - what little there is left after them and their wheelie-bin have been stood all over it.
3. What effect are they having on the sharks' behaviour and predation patterns? If the sharks are just turning up for a free feed, they're not fulfilling their function at the top the food chain.
Don't get me wrong: sharks are cool and I REALLY love shark diving. It's just that it seems a little more earned when you work out where sharks might be, try and understand a little of their behaviour, make the effort to get intom the right piece of water and behave in the right manner to keep them around, rather than take down a bin-full of food and stand all over the reef waiting for them and then poke the poor buggers with sticks when they do turn up. I can't help thinking that if you just want a guaranteed close-up shark sighting, maybe the aquarium's the place to go?
Off to Layang Layang in search of Hammerheads this week. Whoo hoo!
1. If this was shot in Fiji, what happened to the Fijian government ban on shark feeding? There have long been concerns that feeding just primes local shark populations to swarm to the hooks when the Taiwanese long-liners come through looking for fin.
2. Just how much damage are these guys doing to the coral - what little there is left after them and their wheelie-bin have been stood all over it.
3. What effect are they having on the sharks' behaviour and predation patterns? If the sharks are just turning up for a free feed, they're not fulfilling their function at the top the food chain.
Don't get me wrong: sharks are cool and I REALLY love shark diving. It's just that it seems a little more earned when you work out where sharks might be, try and understand a little of their behaviour, make the effort to get intom the right piece of water and behave in the right manner to keep them around, rather than take down a bin-full of food and stand all over the reef waiting for them and then poke the poor buggers with sticks when they do turn up. I can't help thinking that if you just want a guaranteed close-up shark sighting, maybe the aquarium's the place to go?
Off to Layang Layang in search of Hammerheads this week. Whoo hoo!
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