Sentences with phrase «of scalloped hammerhead»

Wolf and Darwin Islands are the Galapagos» premier attraction for whale sharks and huge aggregations of scalloped hammerhead sharks and other sharks like the Galapagos and silky.

This is where divers come to see the big stuff, from whale sharks the size of a city bus to schools of scalloped hammerhead sharks that fill the underwater horizon.

Layang Layang: It is for the huge schools of scalloped hammerhead sharks that patrol around the island that Laying Layang has developed the reputation as a «must see» diving destination of Malaysia.

This is where you can expect a great number of large pelagics, including vast schools of scalloped hammerhead sharks, manta rays, golden rays and dolphins.

Increased human fishing pressure has reduced the size of the population of scalloped hammerhead populations to a negligible size in the Gulf of California, with the species becoming extremely rare in the Mexican Pacific.

June is peak season for schools of scalloped hammerheads, and the cooler water from July through November attract more whale sharks.

Not exact matches

Michelle McComb of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and colleagues implanted electrodes into the eyes of three species of hammerhead — the winghead, the bonnethead and the scalloped hammerhead — and two other shark species to measure their field of vision.

Michelle McComb of Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and colleagues compared the visual fields of three species of hammerhead — the winghead, the bonnethead and the scalloped hammerhead — with those of two other species of shark.

What a CITES listing would mean A listing on CITES Appendix II might help stanch the rapid population declines of oceanic whitetips, scalloped hammerheads and porbeagles — all three have declined 90 to 99 percent since the 1950s.

And Carl Meyer at the University of Hawaii showed in 2005 that six sandbar sharks and one scalloped hammerhead could be conditioned to enter a feeding area when an artificial magnetic field was turned on.

The United States has officially proposed to list six threatened shark species — oceanic whitetip, dusky, sandbar and great, scalloped and smooth hammerheads — under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.

Off the east end of Molokai is a structure called Moku «ho'oniki Rock where you may see bigger sealife such as Scalloped Hammerhead sharks, manta rays, spinner dolphins, Hawaiian Monk Seals, or Galapagos sharks, along with a reef system teeming with fish.

You might get a glimpse of mackerels, jacks, snapper, eagle rays, mobula rays, cownose rays and, with any luck, scalloped hammerhead sharks or silky sharks.

Multiple dives with scalloped hammerhead sharks maintained an aura of excitement on board as did the abundance of sea snakes at the volcano knows as Manuk.

And if you are up for the adventure of a lifetime the near virgin waters of Cocos Island offer scalloped hammerhead sharks by the hundreds.

Scuba dive with the swirling tornado - like formation of Barracudas, the big - eye trevallies, the thousands silver jack fishes, the giant size parrot fishes, the numerous turtles and many others such as mantas, eagle rays, tunas, scalloped hammerhead sharks, whale sharks and 3000 more species of fish.

Located 342 miles (550 kilometers) off the west coast of Costa Rica, Cocos Island is famed for its scalloped hammerhead shark encounters.

March to May is considered the best time to see the marquee creature of this destination, scalloped hammerheads.

The expanded protected area, which is likely to include both fully protected and low impact fishing zones, will encourage the sustainable management of fisheries resources and protect the scalloped hammerhead shark and the leatherback turtle, two threatened species that concentrate and feed in the new area, and two key «flagship» species for the Eastern Tropical Pacific.

in circumference, and is often dubbed «Shark Island» for the abundance of sharks that live in its waters, including white tipped reef sharks, whale sharks, and scalloped hammerhead sharks.

According to Pew, the images captured depict «fins and body parts of biologically vulnerable shark species, such as scalloped hammerhead and oceanic whitetip, being readied for market.»