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We encountered this Silky Sharks - Carcharhinus falciformis during night snorkel.
The Marine Park do not allows night dives but allow divers to swim/snorkel with Silky Sharks at night.
Some of us were brave enough to swim/snorkel with them, but the Marine Park also do not allows us to use video lights during the swim/snorkel. So basically, we were relying on the lights from the Boat and if we were to swim more than 10 meters away, it will be totally dark. However, we were allowed to use strobe/flash when taking pictures of the Sharks.
This Silky Sharks can grow up to 2.5 meters but the ones we saw were mostly around 2 meters and there were easily 10 of them hanging out behind our Boat. They can be very curious and they would sneak up behind you and would even brush against your legs to check you out.
The silky shark, also known by numerous names such as blackspot shark, grey whaler shark, olive shark, ridgeback shark, sickle shark, sickle-shaped shark, and sickle silk shark, is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae, named for the smooth texture of its skin. It is one of the most abundant sharks in the pelagic zone, and can be found around the world in tropical waters.
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Also the Marine Parks knows its safe, otherwise, they wouldn't have allowed this too. Posted 6 years ago