Thresher Shark - Philippines - Malapascua - Monad Shoal with Sea-Explorers - January 26th 2009

This was my 4th dive at Monad Shoal in that morning of January 2009. The first 3 dives were very unsucessfull to find the famous thresher shark. We arrived at dawn around 6.00am and were lucky to find no other diver boat. We were 4 divers, a couple from England, the dive master and I. After 5 minutes under-water, we've finally found the thresher shark. I've decided to take a video with my small camera as the visibility was not good enough to take any pictures. Also, I wanted to catch the gracefull motion of this shark. We were extremely lucky. First because the shark stayed alomost 10 minutes with us, then because a second one has arrived at the end of the video. The sharks are coming every morning at this cleaning station. This is their bathroom. Many small fish (wrasses) are not affraid to get into their mouth in order to clean the teeth and skin parasites. That's really something amazing to see. Thresher sharks are not dangerous. Please do your best to protect all kind of sharks. In average, there are 8 people killed every year by sharks, But hundreds by dogs, but nobody wants to exterminate dogs ... Sharks are the main sea predators after human, but they are usefull to maintain balance between all sea species.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• shark
• thresher
• scuba
• diving
• philippines
• malapascua
• cebu
• visayas
• monad
• shoal
• sea
• explorers

[rubenhamahiga]

Wow! you are very lucky! the thresher sharks spend time that long with you guys! been diving in malapascua very often but the sharks will only shows up about 2 to 3 minutes at the most.

[GratefulDiver77]

Awesome! I hope I get to see a thresher while diving someday. Thanks for posting.