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RE: Oceanic whitetip shark - Elphinstone Red Sea
Fantastic video @pieter87. I love how inquisitive this fella was, just coming right up to you and checking out the group. What a fantastic encounter 🦈 🙂
Fantastic video @pieter87. I love how inquisitive this fella was, just coming right up to you and checking out the group. What a fantastic encounter 🦈 🙂
yeah, this was from 2 years ago. Last month I've been to the same reef and encountered 2 circling around the boat at 5-7 meter and again it stood out that they are so curious. They just had a swim by to see if we weren't a nice bite :-).
I started reading a lot about sharks since I started diving and that's typical to the 'oceanic' variant of many sharks. They live in a huge ocean were food isn't as available as on a reef so they take what the can. That makes them also a bit more dangerous then reef sharks. From time to time they take a bit (even in driftwood or a buoy) just to see if it isn't something eatable because they never know when they will find food again.