Sentences with phrase «whale sharks at»

In Western Australia, sleep overnight on a yacht in Ningaloo reef and dive with whale sharks at dawn.

The Similans feature huge underwater boulders, and a vast array of sea life can be seen on these trips, including frequent sightings of whale sharks at Richelieu Rock, manta rays at Koh Bon, leopard sharks and turtles.

Hike and explore remote uninhabited islets and snorkel with Whale Sharks at Bahia de Los Angeles.

Excited expectations of diving with manta rays at Koh Bon and chance encounters with whale sharks at Richelieu Rock and Koh Tachai, provide a dramatic complement to Similan diving safaris and irresistible incentives to most first - timers.

Here you can find whale sharks at any time of the year and many of the dive sites are sheltered from rough seas.

From March to June, dive with Whale Sharks at Gladden Spit (a cut in the reef east of Placencia village).

Swim with whale sharks at nearby Gladden Spit, one of the few places where these gentle giants congregate each spring.

The Maldives archipelago is one of the few destinations where you can dive with whale sharks at any time of the year!

There have even been diver sightings of whale sharks at Lankayan during coral spawning events.

The season for Whale sharks at Gladden spit is March through till June.

The PADI Discover Snorkeling tour takes half a day, and in addition to the coral reefs of Placencia, we also have trips to snorkel with the Whale sharks at Gladden Spit.

Some scientists believe that this region annually boasts the largest congregations of whale sharks at any one time.

«Our whale sharks at Ningaloo are mostly male teenagers.

For instance, the number of whale sharks at Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia declined on average by 19 percent from 2001 to 2005.

Amazing photo of my fearless friend Dan free diving with a 40 ′ whale shark at Gordo Banks — Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.

No crowds chasing a single whale shark at these dive sites - sometimes the whale sharks outnumber the divers!

In 2010, the city of Isla Mujeres added sculptures of the Whale Shark at the entrance to Malecon East and the Blue Marlin and Barracuda on Malecon West.

Not exact matches

We already have a number of dead zones and fish dependent animals dying off at an alarming rate (whales, sharks, polar bears to name a few).

The Georgia Aquarium is right there at Centennial Park, and they have a damn whale shark in a tank for your spectating and TWO species of adorable otters.

Even snorkeling, I had a whale shark come to swim right under me, and a white - tipped reef shark came so close I had a good look at its smile.

Researchers who observed great white sharks scavenge a whale carcass off the coast of South Africa found that multiple animals fed beside each other at the same time, displaying relaxed behavior such as a belly - up posture and a lack of ocular rotation.

At the other end of the scale is the whale shark that can grow to more than 12 metres and whose presence, fishers say, brings good luck.

Whale sharks that make lengthy dives into the cold ocean depths to forage tend to spend a lot of time at the surface warming up afterward, a new study suggests.

Analyses of data for these lengthy dives reveal that the colder the waters were at maximum depth, the more time the whale sharks spent basking at the surface immediately afterward, the researchers report online today in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

Biologist Eva Egelyng Sigsgaard at the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen and her team collected seawater containing skin cells — along with cells from urine and feces — naturally shed by the whale sharks and other animals.

Andi Rusandi, Director of Marine Conservation and Biodiversity at MMAF, shared the importance of this study, «As we strive to develop whale shark ecotourism in Indonesia to benefit our local communities and these majestic animals themselves, it is important to highlight conservation.

A Greenland shark has lived at least 272 years, making the species the longest - lived vertebrate in the world — smashing the previous record held by a 211 - year - old bowhead whale.

The authors looked at the ranges of some 17,348 species of marine life, including whales, sharks rays and fish, and found that 97.4 percent have less than 10 percent of their range represented in marine protected areas.

«I've dived with humpback whales and great white sharks,» said Dougherty, who first learned to dive at age 14 and taught diving in Zanzibar.

Now, an analysis of more than 1700 whale carcasses collected at Donkergat whaling station in South Africa in 1963 confirms that the bites come from the prime suspect — cookie - cutter sharks.

Pegging the trend toward giant sizes to the Plio - Pleistocene ruled out other hypotheses such as the threat of predation by the huge shark megalodon — which had already been around for millions of years before the whales» growth spurt — or the advent of filter feeding, which had been around for more than 15 million years at that point.

That's makes sense to Richard Connor, an animal behaviorist at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, who studies wild dolphins in Shark Bay, Australia, and who supervised a student who studied killer whales at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida.

Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and colleagues from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries report on the movements of whale sharks tagged at the site in a study published July 30, 2014, in the journal PLOS ONE.

Adult whale sharks were not seen at the site, which may serve as a «staging ground» for juveniles before they move on to regional aggregations of larger sharks.

«While all other juvenile whale shark aggregations are dominated by males, we found a sex ratio of 1:1 at the site in the Red Sea.

In the future, genetic analyses can greatly increase researchers» still very limited understanding of whale shark ecology and the status of what appears for now to be at least 2 populations.

Both of these areas produced an abundance of well - preserved Late Cretaceous and Eocene - aged fossils, including those of birds, plesiosaurs (long - necked marine reptiles; numerous isolated bones and at least one partial skeleton), bony fishes (including several skulls and partial skeletons), sharks, whales, unidentified vertebrates, and a variety of beautifully - preserved invertebrates (e.g., ammonites, nautiloids, gastropods, bivalves, crustaceans).

The trio ends - up at a marine life aquarium center in California, where we're introduced to a host of new characters, including a septopus named Hank, Bailey the Beluga Whale, and a whale shark named DesWhale, and a whale shark named Deswhale shark named Destiny.

The major new characters, most of whom are seen at least briefly in the new trailer, include Dory's parents Jenny (Diane Keaton) and Charlie (Eugene Levy); Ty Burrell as Bailey, a beluga whale; Kaitlin Olson as Destiny, a whale shark who is Dory's adopted sister; and Ed O'Neill as Hank, «an ill - tempered octopus.»

At any given time, 150 whale sharks are feeding in the area, so it won't take long to find a few.

Scuba charters can sometimes locate whale sharks and snorkeling tours with the sea lions at Los Islotes is a fun activity for non-divers.

Touch a shark, marvel at a whale of a skeleton, dive into the latest discoveries in ocean science.

Among the more than 200 different species of fish that call Molokini Crater home at least part of the day is the real gentle giant of the sea, the whale shark.

Outside the city, try freshwater fishing at Papa Kit's Marina & Fishing Lagoon in Liloan, swim with whale sharks in Tan - awan Oslob and discover the Kawasan Falls in Badian.

If you'd rather swim with whale sharks then you need to go south to Oslob — make sure you stop off at the stunning Kawasan Falls along the way.

Simons Town IS BEST KNOWN FOR for its penguins at Boulders Beach, great white shark diving, whale watching, hiking in the Cape Point National Park, boat trips, kayaking, steam train trips from Cape Town to Simons Town, the working Naval base and of course «Just Nuisance».

Ask around at the docks or downtown Isla Mujeres for someone to take you to the whale sharks and be prepared to spend about five to six hours on the water with all that entails.

Every year, from April to July, whale sharks — at 50 ft long the largest fish in the ocean — arrive at Ningaloo Reef in Western Australia to feed, and you can join them.

The restaurants are relaxed and child - friendly, and the activities on offer include swimming with whale sharks, watching the flamingos at sunset, and taking a glass - bottomed boat tour to see turtles and other exotic aquatic creatures.

As the name suggests, at Shark Point you will see black - tip reef sharks, as well as whale sharks if you're diving in December and May.