[Coral-List] Shark Week!

Chelsie Counsell cwagner at bio.fsu.edu
Sat Aug 10 14:05:14 EDT 2013


Hi Mark,

When I spent semesters in South Caicos in 2008 and 2010, sharks were still
practically a guarantee when diving the channels and drop offs. Mainly reef
sharks with some lemons and the very occasional hammerhead.

Best,
Chelsie Counsell

-- 
NSF Graduate Fellow
Department of Marine Biology
University of Hawai'i
counsell at hawaii.edu

Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 09:16:39 -0700
> From: Mark Tupper <mtupper at coastal-resources.org>
> Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Shark week!
> To: "Pawlik, Joseph" <pawlikj at uncw.edu>
> Cc: "coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov" <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
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> Hi Joseph,
>
> Have you been working in the Exumas for some time? I ask because I lived
> there in 1988 and 89 and back then, shark encounters wouldn't make the
> news. Sharks were very common - to the point that spearfishing could be
> risky, as sharks were encountered on many dives, if not most. I guess that
> is no longer true?
>
> Also, as late as 2000, sharks were almost guaranteed when diving channels
> and drop offs  around South Caicos in the TCI. Not sure if that is still
> true 13 years later...
>
> Cheers
> Mark Tupper
>
>
>
> On 2013-08-09, at 7:03 AM, "Pawlik, Joseph" <pawlikj at uncw.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hi Listers,
> >
> > In keeping with Discovery Channel's "Shark week" (minus the Megalodon
> hoax), check out this video of reef sharks from a site within the Exuma
> Land and Sea Park in the Bahamas.  We rarely see sharks while diving on
> reefs in the Caribbean, and then usually only as fleeting glimpses in the
> distance.  But at both visits to this site, a few small reef sharks slowly
> circled the divers.  I suspect that other dive groups feed these sharks (we
> do not).
> > http://youtu.be/MzrWACzMFZ8
> > Regards,
> >
> > Joe
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