PTOTW---Sharks!

[JudyG]

Well, we've done sharks before, so I have shared some of the following pix previously. Sadly, I am seeing very few sharks in my travels these days - I really believe that their populations are being quickly decimated by overfishing for the very lucrative shark fin trade. Pretty much a tragedy.

Here are a few from me - a couple of oldies, along with a couple of newer shots:


Silvertip Shark - Cocos Island, Costa Rica



Scalloped Hammerhead, Cocos Island, Costa Rica



Schooling Hammers in Costa Rica



Reefie in Turks & Caicos



Baby Brown-banded Bamboo Shark, Ambon, Indonesia



Zebra Shark, Thailand



Tassled Woebegong Shark, Raja Ampat, Indonesia



Twang and the Whaleshark, Galapagos

J.

[divergirl]

Judy I love the baby brown-banded bamboo shark (that's a hell of an alliteration)

[divergirl]

Yes. The pic isn't very good since I took it from a video clip. Here is the video :-). Click on the image to play. Try not to laugh too hard at my poor video skills...seeing an OWT at night had me a little jazzed up....

An interesting side note. When the liveaboard came back to port, I spoke with Elke Bojanowski, who was working at that time as a DM on one of the Blue O Two liveaboards. She has created a photo ID catalog of certain shark species in the Egyptian Red Sea to support shark research projects in the Red Sea. She added the shark in the video to the database....and also confirmed that she had seen the same shark the day after I saw it within a few miles of my sighting (OWTs are identifiable by their fin markings). It hasn't been seen since, but cool that it is in the databse with a map of where it was seen.

http://www.redseasharks.org/sharkinfo.php?UID=clo-296

Holy $**t, that's impressive. In honesty, Oceanic White Tips are the few that kinda scare me. It would probably take a lot to coax me to swim with that shark.

Also that's some really awesome information.

[dascubanut]

Two from Isla Mujeres





From the Bahamas

[RayC2]

Here's a GW who came in for a closer look in Guadalupe MX

[RayC2]

Negali Pass, Fiji 2005

[RayC2]

Here's one from a D2D trip on the Nekton Pilot to Cay Sal Bank

[JudyG]

Bump. C'mon folks, there have got to be lotsa shark pix out there...

J.

[NatashaS]

It remains a great theme. Alas most of my shark images have been buried under piles of work, like me recently. Some older shots.


Lemon (Tiger Beach, Bahamas)


Blue (far offshore Rhode Island)


massive Tiger (Beqa, Fiji)


Tawny Nurse (Beqa, Fiji)


Bull on dome port (Beqa, Fiji)

As impressive as tigers are (gotta love a shark that makes other sharks disappear), I have to say my favourite of this set would have to be the blue. Like a cross between a ballerina and a puppy, but more skittish. Illuminated they really are blue.

Out of space for this post.

[taylor21]

Amazing display of sharks above. These pictures shows that sharks are on the
very below surface of the sea. As they found it easy to eat several small fish
at a time.