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Although sharks and rays may be encountered
throughout the world's oceans, there are certain areas where either
through natural occurrence or artificial encouragement, particular species
are vastly more plentiful or accessible. An example of this is Cocos
Island, 300 miles off the coast of Costa Rica, where schooling Scalloped
hammerheads are seasonally encountered in incredible
numbers. This section of Elasmodiver has been created to highlight some of
these elasmobranch "hotspots" and to critique the live-aboards, dive shops, and
resorts that facilitate divers getting to them. The expansion of this area will
be a slow process and one that will not necessarily list the various locations
in order of global significance. Rather, as Elasmodiver is able to visit each
location we will attempt to deliver an unbiased and useful assessment of aspects
such as shark numbers, variety, and reliability, as well as professionalism,
ethical conduct, and value of the operators. What could be finer than the
prospect of dogmatically diving the great shark filled sites of the world in
search of the ultimate encounter!
Europe
El
Cabron, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands - Common
Angel Sharks
Los
Gigantes, Tenerife, Canary Islands - Common
Stingrays, Common Eagle Rays
The Lizard
Peninsula, Cornwall, UK - Basking Sharks.
North America
Quadra Island, British
Columbia, Canada - Spiny Dogfish.
Guadalupe Island, Baja California, Mexico
- Great White Sharks.
Hornby Island, British
Columbia, Canada - Sixgill Sharks.
Moorhead City /
Outer Banks, North
Carolina, USA - Sandtiger Sharks.
Catalina
Island Blue Water, California, USA - Blue sharks and Mako
sharks.
Venice, Louisiana
- Dusky and Silky Sharks.
Pacific Central America
Cocos Island, Costa Rica
- Scalloped Hamerheads, Silkies, Silvertips, Prickly Sharks, Galapagos, Whale
sharks, Whitetip Reef sharks, and Marble Rays.
Mexico, Caribbean and The Bahamas
Playa Del Carmen, Mexico
- Bull Sharks
Isla Holbox,
Mexico - Whale Sharks
Stingray City, Grand Cayman
- Southern Stingrays.
St Maarten, Netherland Antilles
- Blacknose and Caribbean Reef Sharks.
Tiger Beach, Bahamas - Tiger Sharks, Great Hammerheads, Caribbean Reef Sharks, Bull
Sharks, and Lemon Sharks.
Utila, Bay Islands, Honduras - Whale sharks
Australia
Fish Rock, Southwest Rocks, NSW, Australia - Wobbegong
sharks and Sandtigers.
Hamelin Bay, Western Australia
- Cobbler Wobbegong, Necklace Carpet Shark.
Ningaloo Reef, western
Australia - Whale Sharks, Whitetip Reef, Tasseled
Wobbegong, Wards Wobbegong shark.
Coming Eventually:
Burma Banks / Silvertip Bank, Myanmar
-
Silvertip Sharks and Tawny Nurse.
Cape Point, cape Town south africa
- Makos and Blue Sharks.
Dangerous Reef, South Australia
- Great
White Sharks.
Darwin Island, Galapagos Islands,
Equador - Galapagos, Whitetip,
and Whale Sharks.
Dyer Island, South Africa
- Great White
Sharks.
El Bajo Seamount, La Paz, Baja Peninsula, Mexico
- Scalloped Hammerheads.
Elphinstone, Egypt
- Oceanic Whitetip Sharks
False Bay, South Africa
- Great White
Sharks.
Farallon Islands, California, USA.
-
Great White Sharks.
Malapascua, Philippines - Thresher Sharks.
Malpelo Island, Columbia
- Scalloped
Hammerheads, Silkies, Smalltooth Sandtigers.
Nassau, Bahamas - Caribbean Reef Sharks.
Poor Knights, New Zealand
- Schooling
Rays.
Roatan, Honduras
- Caribbean Reef Sharks.
Santa Lucia, Cuba
- Bull Sharks
Walkers Cay, Bahamas
- Caribbean Reef
Sharks and Bull Sharks.
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