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Spinner Shark
This Spinner Sharks was seen during a chumming dive, where pre-arranged boat from nearby tuna factory will start to dump 'left-overs' and tuna carcass into the sea at the dive site. There were no 'direct feeding'.
The Sharks will seems to show up out of nowhere and starts to 'feed' and after 30 minutes of high-adrenaline actions, they disappears once the boat stops dumping further food.
During the trip, there were 2 days that out boat arranged for chumming but not a single shark showed up!
The spinner shark is a species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae, named for the spinning leaps it makes as a part of its feeding strategy. This species occurs in tropical and warm temperate waters worldwide, except for in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is found from coastal to offshore habitats to a depth of 100 m, though it prefers shallow water.
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Posted 5 years ago, modified 5 years ago
An interesting Shark indeed and they actually can be 'aggressive' checking out divers who pushed the limit.
During our dives, we were briefed not to stay near the surface or too far out to the blue where they are more active, 2 divers (not from my group); a Singaporean Instructor was circled by a Shark near the surface and one his diver from France kicked a Shark away when it swam directly to him. I had videos of those encounters! lol Posted 5 years ago
Am sure looking back, you had a wonderful memory of your encounters with them :D Posted 5 years ago