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Diving with ragge- tooth sharks with Active. As most divers will tell you, ragged-tooth sharks are one of the most unpredicatble sharks in the ocean. We have gone to great lengths in order to provide you with safe and incredible ragged-tooth shark diving.
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Shagra Village - Marsa Alam. 4 day of shark workshops and diving with oceanic sharks at elphinstone. T&C's apply. Limited places available...more info...GO |
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SHARK WORKSHOP - limited places available |
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The worshop mentioned above is brilliant. Run By Dr Eric Ritter - one of the world's most famous and informed shark specialists. Just to spend 4 days in his company is worth it. He is a wealth of knowledge and one of the founders of the famous shark trust. If you google him you can find out more. This workshop is run once a year in late November. The week is limited to 40 people, you get 4 days of workshops, 1 week unlimited diving and 6 paid boat dives at the famous Elphinstone! Contact us now.. GO |
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Oceanic White Tips Sharks
Appearance
Large, stocky build, with a short blunt snout. Long, broad and paddle-shaped pectoral fins. High first dorsal fin. Origin of the first dorsal fin just in front of the pectoral free rear tips. Interdorsal ridge, may be absent or only weakly developed.
Coloration
Grey-bronze upper body, white ventral surface. White mottling usually present on fins, particularly on the pectorals, first dorsal fin, pelvic fins and caudal fin tips. Flank with an inconspicuous white band.
Distribution
Worldwide, mainly in oceanic, tropical and warm-temperate waters. Western Atlantic: Maine to Argentina, including the Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico. Central Atlantic. Eastern Atlantic: Madeira, south to the Gulf of Guinea. Western Indian Ocean: Madagascar, Mozambique, Mauritius, Seychelles, Red Sea, India. Western Pacific: China, the Philippines, New Caledonia, Australia. Central Pacific: Hawaiian Islands south to Samoa Islands, Tahiti and Tuamotu Archipelago, and to the Galapagos Islands. Eastern Pacific: Southern California to Peru, including the Gulf of California and Clipperton Islands.
Biology
A common, ocean-epipelagic, but occasionally, coastal, tropical and warm-temperate shark, usually found far offshore in the open sea. This species prefers water temperatures above 20$#176;Celsius and is most common between 20$#176;North and 20$#176;South. Population dynamics and structure are little known. Apparently size and sexual segregation occurs in this shark as in many other species. This is one of the three most abundant oceanic sharks, the other two are the and the Blue shark This species is slow moving but can be quite active. Often seen cruising slowly near the surface with its huge pectoral fins conspicuously outspread. The oceanic whitetip shark can be very bold and persistent in attending potential sources of food.
Feeding
This species feeds mainly on oceanic bony fishes, cephalopods, and occasionally on stingrays, sea birds, turtles, carrion from marine mammals, and garbage.
Size
Maximum size possibly 390 cm, but most specimen are below 300 cm.
Reproduction
AViviparous, with yolksac-placenta. 1 to 15 pups per litter. Size at birth between 65 and 75 cm. Gestation period about 12 months. Males mature at about 175 and 180 cm, females mature at about 180 to 200 cm. placental viviparous (ovoviviparous). Size at birth about 100 cm.
With thanks and acknowledgemnt to http://www.shark.ch/index.html - Shark Info / Dr. Erich K. Ritter - Shark Foundation. Diving with oceanic sharks.
Diving with sharks.
