What kind of sharks have you seen?

[zboss]

Just for the heck of it I thought it would be cool to find out which sharks people see the most often while diving - regardless of location, time of year, etc...

 

[Walter]

You left off one of the most common and listed another twice, so I edited your poll to correct this.

This poll will not give you the results you are seeking. You are not taking into account the number of sightings. If a person has seen thousands of nurse sharks and one blue, they are counted exactly the same in your poll.

 

[DennisW]

Nurse Sharks, plenty of them and one Black Tip Reef Shark off of West Palm Beach on a beautiful unlimited vizability dive.

 

[zboss]

Walter once bubbled...
You left off one of the most common and listed another twice, so I edited your poll to correct this.

This poll will not give you the results you are seeking. You are not taking into account the number of sightings. If a person has seen thousands of nurse sharks and one blue, they are counted exactly the same in your poll.

Like I said - it's just for fun anyhow... something to generate a discussion. There is nothing like a good shark story! Anyhow... you are only partially correct about the poll- the poll is called an "Unweighted poll" and is designed not to specifically determine the number of sharks but the range of species of sharks that a diver might encounter. You could then further break the poll into the specific species most often seen, and classify ot by year, dive, etc... to get a better understanding... but that's all moot for my purposes.

 

[roakey]

White Tip, Black Tip, Nurse, Zebra, Bamboo, Cat, Leopard, Swell, Gray Nurse, Califrnia Gray, Horn and my absolute favorite, once: Thresher.

Roak

 

[zboss]

roakey once bubbled...
White Tip, Black Tip, Nurse, Zebra, Bamboo, Cat, Leopard, Swell, Gray Nurse, Califrnia Gray and my absolute favorite, once: Thresher.

Roak

Wow! A threasher? Where were you?

 

[roakey]

Saipan, diving in the Grotto (1974ish timeframe). Swam outside the big (left) tunnel while we were diving inside. Well lit by the sunlight, probably about 70' away.

Don't know what kind of Thresher it was, though. It still stands out in my mind as the most beautiful shark I've ever seen!

Roak

 

[Aquamaniac]

You left out:

Lawyers
Insurance Salesman
Politicians

 

[Fred Brown]

You also left out the owner of my local LDS.

 

[chiara]

Leopard sharks, where are they?

They are quite common in the Indian Ocean, so nice, big and very quiet (I approached one at less than 10 feet).

Plus a hammerhead, my first, off Ras Mohammed, in Egypt