Whale shark, in a net?

[archman]

I smell new regulations...

 

[dlndavid]

Thanks for the heads up on this. I have forwarded the site to several people who may be able to help.

BTW - whale sharks are not mammals, they are fish and true sharks.

This is disgraceful, disrespectful behaviour and I hope to see a quick release.

I had one of my employees translate the site for me. It is a site for posting UW photos. The menu on the left are country selections. The whale shark photos are posted under "Japan". The website itself is Chinese.

 

[ssra30]

Thanks for the heads up on this. I have forwarded the site to several people who may be able to help.

BTW - whale sharks are not mammals, they are fish and true sharks.

This is disgraceful, disrespectful behaviour and I hope to see a quick release.

Alcina, let us know if there is anything we can do to help, who to write to, etc etc.

 

[alcina]

I will. Not sure exactly what is all going on so will have to do some digging first.

You have a whale shark foundation in Thailand (that I can't find the contact details for) and it might be good to give them the heads up too...

 

[Squalus]

Was planning to dive in Japan just to swim with the whale sharks, till now. I don't think that it would be in my best intrest to do so. I might cause an international incident, hmmm new dive tool bolt cutters

 

[archman]

I'm sure Greenpeace has a boat headed out that way. Even those crackpots have some good points.

 

[alcina]

Want to swim with whale sharks? Head to Ningaloo Reef between April and July and you can do so in the wild, with a pretty well run industry.

If you fly through Tokyo on American/Qantas you can actually connect to the Ningaloo on the same day out of Perth - there is only one a day a week you can do that if you fly via Sydney...I am a font of semi-useless information

 

[ssra30]

I sent an email to www.whalesharkthai.com , not sure if that might help. I wish somebody can figure out the detail from the website, may be name/phone number or email of the operator.

 

[dlndavid]

I sent an email to www.whalesharkthai.com , not sure if that might help. I wish somebody can figure out the detail from the website, may be name/phone number or email of the operator.

How about PADI, they are using the PADI 5 star emblem.

 

[ssra30]

How about PADI, they are using the PADI 5 star emblem.

Done, I think we all can help writing to PADI and various agents. I doubt PADI could do anything much about releasing the animal but it should not tolerate or recognize one of its member who practice such disgraceful act.