Sentences with phrase «shark sightings off»

In recent weeks, observers have noted migrating whales coming closer to California's shoreline, pelagic red crabs arriving in droves near Channel Islands National Park, and a spike in great white shark sightings off the coast of our Golden Gate National Parks.

Recent reports of as many as 25 great white sharks sighted off the California coast in one afternoon is enough to scare the bejesus out of most people.

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The research traces its origins to one summer day in 2007, when a worker on a Maersk Oil platform in the Al Shaheen oil field off the coast of Qatar saw a surprising sight: a group of roughly 100 whale sharks feeding near the surface.

However, the recent spike in juvenile great white shark sightings means that legislation like the Clean Water Act and the Marine Life Protection Act have proven effective in protecting and boosting marine life off the state's coast.

And Allen and McCosker both say that 2015 has not been an outlier year of white shark sightings or encounters, at least for the waters off and around the San Francisco Bay.

In the winter time, most sea lion colony tours end with a sighting of whale sharks off the Magote just outside La Paz.

Snorkeling off the southwest coast of New Providence Island yields shallow shipwrecks, shark sightings and an underwater sculpture park.

Drop offs and walls descending hundreds of meters into the Solomon Sea are the setting for spectacular pelagic and shark sightings in 40 - 60m visibility.

Off the coast of Honduras you may also be treated to the sight of a whale shark.