i did 40 dives last year before I saw a shark.
In Ko Chang, Perhentians, Similan islands, Tioman, Sipidan,Tao
So where do they hang out?
maybe I was just unlucky, but I was promised there were sharks in these places.
I suspect they all ended up in shark fin soup
I would like to see a hammerhead esp.
If you were on Koh Tao, how many dives did you have on Chumporn Pinnacle? This is the place to see sharks around Koh Tao, not guaranteed on every dive, but plenty of times sightings, almost a 50/50 chance.
Although there must be hammerheads in the Gulf, I don't know anyone who's seen any in the Gulf whilst diving, only slaughtered ones on the local Samui/Tao markets.
Edited by: limbo1
How could you not see sharks in Sipadan ? There are so many white-tips there. I saw 6 hammerheads there a few years ago, but that was lucky.
You should be able to see leopard sharks in the Similans. For black-tip sharks, they are often easier to spot if you snorkle, in places like the Perhentians in Malaysia or the Similans in Thailand.
It's sad with the shark fin soup business.
I did see a few in Sipidan, white tips iirc, and a couple of baby nurse sharks, but that was all
I think I had a couple of dives on chumpon pinnacle, but no sharks
instead of perhentian (still a few sharks there tho) try redang - more expensive; more sharks
maldives also
Where are all the sharks? Hopefully they've all been finned and put in soup.
crosses fingers
Finned and tinned.
Still plenty of small shysharks & catsharks around here (Cape) although some of them are already listed threatened and you get the occasional smoothhound & sevengill.
The situation with the pelagics like blue and mako is more dire. They get taken out as bycatch together with seals & penguins by unselective and highly wasteful fishing with longlines.
Conflicting claims about the Great Whites range from stable population via threatened to genetically extinct due to lack of data.
It's not just sad that our children and grandchildren might not be able to experience these magnificent creatures in the ocerans any more.
It's worse that the sharks after evolving successfully for almost 400 million years and surviving a number of mass extinction events will not survive us.
Removing the apex predators from the planets largest and most diverse food chain will leave us and generations to come facing consequences beyond our wildest imagination.
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zipfish- you sound like yo're overboard 100miles offshore and bleeding badly!
I only started diving last year, I'll have to see some this year or they'll all be feeding rich chinamen
Like lecap says, sad that our children won't be able to see sharks.
The situation seems the same with animals, I spent a lot of time last year trying to see wildlife, and saw very little
Of course I should've done it 20 years ago
