Today's Video: THOUSANDS of SHARKS off Palm Beach

[DiverAmy]

Holy Sharks! Batman!

 

[Pelagicsal]

We saw some very briefly on the trip out today off northern Palm Beach. This is an annual migration thing.. Always makes the news, and usually gets blown out of proportion...
Spinners are VERY shy, and spook really easily. I recall a couple years ago, a team tried to put a diver in the water with them numerous times without success. They had a small boat, would ease up on top of them and the diver would carefully slid into the water. The sharks took off...

Darn! I hate it when that happens!

 

[Tom Winters]

This was a misleading headline - I thought it was about the American Bar Association Swim-a-thon off the Breakers and not a bunch of dumb fish.

 

[bilsant]

How can they be dumb if they're in a school?


sorry, couldn't resist.

 

[tridacna]

How can they be dumb if they're in a school?


sorry, couldn't resist.

Hmmm...it's actually a shiver of sharks. (School or shoal also OK). Sorry, couldn't resist!

 

[sportxlh]

They came through last year as well: last year a similar video was posted with a huge congregation of spinners near boynton: one of the new channels also carried a story as well

 

[danvolker]

They came through last year as well: last year a similar video was posted with a huge congregation of spinners near boynton: one of the new channels also carried a story as well

Here is a story on ALL the migrations, with a Calendar to allow you to plan on being able to see this stuff for yourself..so you can plan months out!
The Migrations of Marine Life along the South Florida Coast Page two of this article has some cool spinner video as well... I have to say, DD has pulled up his game lately, with good information and good posts...