What kind of sharks have you seen?
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Gman0520
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Nurse sharks in the gulf. Snorkled with some black tips in Tahiti.
I've only seen 2 nurse sharks. One in Cozumel and one at the Texas Flower Gardens. The one in Coz was hiding under a ledge, but a DM found him and he leasurely swam to a new spot. The one at the Gardens surprized me with how fast they are. We're talking 0-50 in a heartbeat speed.
Oh and I did buddy with a law student a few times. (sorry Bill, I couldn't resist)
Oh and I did buddy with a law student a few times. (sorry Bill, I couldn't resist)
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tampascott once bubbled...
Those of you who have seen oceantic whitetips, I'd be interested in hearing more about that.
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I've seen them a few times in the Red Sea, of Brother Islands and Elphinstone Reef in Egypt as well as Angarosh in Sudan. They are very impressive sharks and one of my favourite. I especially recall my first oceanic whitetip encounter at Angarosh, which is a spot were you normally watch schooling scalloped hammerheads. This time me and my buddy didn't have any luck with the hammerheads. Our time at 40 meters (120 ft) was up and we headed up the reef (which can be described as a pinnacle rising up from 700 (2100 ft) meters). Me first and my buddy after me. When we came up to 10 meters I stopped and glanced over my shoulder only to find my buddy hanging further out from the reef, pointing out in the blue. I swam up next to him and suddenly I see the trademark of the longimanus - the very long pectoral fins surrounded by pilot fishes. The animal came straight at us and turned just a few meters in front of us, heading back out into the blue. This was a very large specimen, I would say 3.5 meters (10.5 ft), an old warrior. When we surfaced my buddy told me it had been doing two rounds before I cwas there, probably it got a bit to crowded when I showed up. We tried to talk my buddy into continue acting bait on the later dives, but he was reluctant. My experinece (and many others) is that the Longimanus is comparably unafraid and will often approach divers. However the ones I have met have never showed any aggressiveness, only curiosity.
A friend of mine had a nice safetystop also once at Elphinstone. He had a few frames left in his camera and signalled to his girlfriend (buddy), who was freezing, to head out from the reef and get up and call for the dingy. Himself staying on top of the reef in five meters trying to find objects to finnish his roll. Five-ten minutes later he heads out from the reef, and he made sure to really get away from the reef because the sea was rough and the dingy drivers had been complaining about divers surfacing to close to the reef. My friend is a strong swimmer so it didn't take him long before he lost contact with the reef wall. So he stops, hangin' there to get rid of some nitrogen. Close to the surface in open water, by himself. Yep, you already got this one figured out. Mr. oceanic whitetip shows up. I can tell you he was very quick into the dingy and he actually did get one image of the shark as proof, and allthough it was blurry, there was no doubt what it was.
/christian
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tampascott once bubbled...
Those of you who have seen oceantic whitetips, I'd be interested in hearing more about that.
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I've seen them a few times in the Red Sea, of Brother Islands and Elphinstone Reef in Egypt as well as Angarosh in Sudan. They are very impressive sharks and one of my favourite. I especially recall my first oceanic whitetip encounter at Angarosh, which is a spot were you normally watch schooling scalloped hammerheads. This time me and my buddy didn't have any luck with the hammerheads. Our time at 40 meters (120 ft) was up and we headed up the reef (which can be described as a pinnacle rising up from 700 (2100 ft) meters). Me first and my buddy after me. When we came up to 10 meters I stopped and glanced over my shoulder only to find my buddy hanging further out from the reef, pointing out in the blue. I swam up next to him and suddenly I see the trademark of the longimanus - the very long pectoral fins surrounded by pilot fishes. The animal came straight at us and turned just a few meters in front of us, heading back out into the blue. This was a very large specimen, I would say 3.5 meters (10.5 ft), an old warrior. When we surfaced my buddy told me it had been doing two rounds before I cwas there, probably it got a bit to crowded when I showed up. We tried to talk my buddy into continue acting bait on the later dives, but he was reluctant. My experinece (and many others) is that the Longimanus is comparably unafraid and will often approach divers. However the ones I have met have never showed any aggressiveness, only curiosity.
A friend of mine had a nice safetystop also once at Elphinstone. He had a few frames left in his camera and signalled to his girlfriend (buddy), who was freezing, to head out from the reef and get up and call for the dingy. Himself staying on top of the reef in five meters trying to find objects to finnish his roll. Five-ten minutes later he heads out from the reef, and he made sure to really get away from the reef because the sea was rough and the dingy drivers had been complaining about divers surfacing to close to the reef. My friend is a strong swimmer so it didn't take him long before he lost contact with the reef wall. So he stops, hangin' there to get rid of some nitrogen. Close to the surface in open water, by himself. Yep, you already got this one figured out. Mr. oceanic whitetip shows up. I can tell you he was very quick into the dingy and he actually did get one image of the shark as proof, and allthough it was blurry, there was no doubt what it was.
/christian
Six Gills can be seen in about 60' - 100' of water just off Hornby Island BC on the odd occasion; as well as other sites. They are typically a deep water fish.
Check out the video. http://dive.bc.ca/dl/video.html
and a good article on six gills: http://divermag.com/archives/april99/hornby_apr99.html
Check out the video. http://dive.bc.ca/dl/video.html
and a good article on six gills: http://divermag.com/archives/april99/hornby_apr99.html
KyMermaidDivr
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The only shark I've seen is a nurse shark ... was hoping to see some black tips in West Palm this past November, but the Shark dive got canceled and and incidental sitings wasn't in the plans of mother nature. 
JustAddWater
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White Tip Reef Sharks
Leopard Sharks
Horn Sharks
Angel Sharks
Thresher Shark (Saw it from the boat, slapping its tail at the bait fish at the surface)
Dogfish (while fishing during a surface interval)
Swell Shark
Six gill shark ( My buddy and I think it was. It was during a night dive, and it surprised the *!@# out of us.)
Leopard Sharks
Horn Sharks
Angel Sharks
Thresher Shark (Saw it from the boat, slapping its tail at the bait fish at the surface)
Dogfish (while fishing during a surface interval)
Swell Shark
Six gill shark ( My buddy and I think it was. It was during a night dive, and it surprised the *!@# out of us.)
Off-Gaser
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Two years ago while fishing between dives me & my buddies spotted a small whale shark (20'). We spent the next hour freediving with it and taking photos.
It was a lil odd finding one that far out of the gulf stream but I wasn't complaining.
I also had a lovely encounter with a 12' tiger one afternoon setting the anchor on a wreck. Got a good case of road rash on my suit from that drive-by!:shark:
It was a lil odd finding one that far out of the gulf stream but I wasn't complaining.
I also had a lovely encounter with a 12' tiger one afternoon setting the anchor on a wreck. Got a good case of road rash on my suit from that drive-by!:shark:
Mr. Nice Guy
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Only been on one ocean dive, during which I saw a Hammerhead swim around for about 10-15 mins
In the Galapagos, I saw Scalloped Hammerheads by the hundreds, Silky Sharks, White Tip Reef Sharks, Galapagos Sharks, an Oceanic White Tip and several Whale Sharks. My first attempts at underwater photograpy was during this trip, and a whale shark photo that I took can be seen at : http://www.neosoft.com/~ovi/news/photos.htm
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