Not just Shark
Pictures: Elasmodiver contains photos of sharks, skates, rays, and
chimaera's from around the world. It began as a simple web based
field guide to help divers find the best places to encounter
different species of sharks and rays but it has slowly evolved into
a much larger project containing information on all aspects of shark
diving and photography. There are now more than a thousand shark
pictures and sections on shark evolution, biology, and
conservation. There is a large library of reviewed shark books, a
constantly outdated shark taxonomy page, a monster list of shark
links, and deeper in the site there are numerous articles and
stories about shark encounters. Elasmodiver is now so difficult to
check for updates, that new information and pictures are listed on
an Elasmodiver Updates Page that can be accessed here:
If you're looking
for a broader range of marine life pictures the following links
represent a new area of elasmodiver.com that contains pictures of
other marine organisms and of marine habitats. This expansion of
Elasmodiver is in its first stages but will eventually include pages
on all types of marine mammals, bony fishes and marine invertebrates
as well as coastal habitats, reefscapes and other imagess relating
to the ocean. Please return regularly to enjoy the progress.
HELP MAKE THIS DATABASE
THE WEB'S LARGEST SHARK
DIVING RESOURCE!
The following websites represent the
beginning of an ambitious project to list every dive company that conducts a
shark dive or regularly sees sharks and/or rays. If you are a dive operator and you think
that you should be included on this list please email elasmodiver.
Shark or Ray Encounter:
Tiger sharks, great hammerheads, lemon sharks, caribbean reef sharks, nurse
sharks, oceanic whitetip sharks.
Style of trip: Live aboard
week long trips from Florida to the Bahamas.
Jim Abernethy runs high quality charters to the outer reefs of the Bahamas.
These trips are some of the best in the world for outside the cage action with
big sharks.
Store / Location: Departs
from West Palm Beach, Florida.
Shark or Ray Encounter:
Caribbean reef sharks, nurse sharks.
Style of trip: Organized
shark feed. Divers decend to a sand patch where CRS are fed every day. A
chainmail clad feeder then decends and feeds the many sharks that regularly show
up for a meal.
Shark or Ray Encounter:
Caribbean reef sharks and occasional blacknose sharks.
Style of Encounter: Reef
shark feed. Divers lay on the sand while the Divemaster feeds small chunks of
fish to CRS with a short metal pole. Very dynamic feed in which the sharks
wrestle for the food and pass under the DMs legs.
Store / Location:
Philipsburg, St Maarten, Netherland Antilles.
Shark or Ray Encounter:
Basking sharks, small spotted catsharks and occasional skates.
Style of trip: Daily
snorkelling encounters with basking sharks in late spring/summer months. Shore
and boat diving trips where catsharks are common all year round.
Store / Location: DS
Porthkerris, The Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, UK.
