whale shark feeding

Sunday 24th October 2010. The best surface interval in the world , EVER. After our first dive, we are munching on Lynnies choc cake and hot milo, while the dive boat FERAL is slowly cruising to our next dive site on Christmas island when TWO whale sharks are spotted. One circles us to have a look at and then goes on its way. The other circles for over an hour, sucking up the plankton soup, weaving in and around the snorkellers in the water. Even when we go for our second dive, it cruises across us while we are on the reef. The pink blobs are the coral spawn floating near the surface, from spawning on the full moon the night before. When we arrived to dive some three weeks before, we were not expecting to see whale sharks as October is too early.The whale shark season normally starts in November, This year it started at the beginning of October on our first diving day. This is whale shark number 7 that we saw in our three weeks diving with Wet'N'Dry Adventures and Hama- the master whale shark finder. Despite some optical illusions, the whale sharks were not touched, no one was swallowed or bumped, and the only animal harmed in the making of this movie was me-- I swallowed a lot of plankton and sea water in the hour that we were in the water.

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Pets & Animals

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• Whale
• shark
• feeding.
• Coral
• spawning.
• Rhincodon
• Typus.
• Wet'n'Dry
• Adventures.
• Christmas
• Island
• Indian
• Ocean.
• Sharks.
• Fee

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amazing video