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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 There is a large library of reviewed shark books, a constantly outdated shark taxonomy page, a monster list of shark links, and deeper in the site there are numerous articles and stories about shark encounters.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:
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ELASMODIVER EXPANDED If you're looking for a broader range of marine life pictures the following links represent a new area that contains pictures on other marine organisms and on marine habitats. This expansion of Elasmodiver is in its first stages but will eventually include pages on everything from sea stars to nudibranches. Creating this portal will take time and for now it consists of a token offering of fish pictures. Please return regularly to enjoy the progress.
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QUESTION FROM ELASMODIVER:
"Can you recommend any specific shore dives for finding Sharks, rays, guitarfish or skates . Also can you pinpoint times of year when various species are prevalent and at what depths they tend to be found in your area?"
RESPONSE FROM JOHN H MOORE AT DIVEBUMS:
"Hard questions.
Leopard sharks in large numbers, generally late summer / early fall -- though
sometimes at other times of the year. When the leopards come, so do a lot
of others ... butterfly rays, shovelnose and banded guitarfish, gray and brown
smoothhounds.
Guitarfish are often around, year round.
Round stingrays and thornback rays are here pretty much all the time; thornbacks
more prevalent at night.
Electric rays -- on occasion, more likely in Scripps Canyon. Unusual.
Soupfin sharks sometimes school in early summer, sometimes not.
Bat rays in large number when/if there's a squid run; squid runs generally occur
in winter.
Horn sharks, in small numbers (much fewer of them than there used to be).
Big skates -- unusual.
Angel sharks -- unusual.
What else?
Your best shot is just to do a bunch of dives at the Shores, varying where and
when (day/night). Probably hit the Marine Room -- shallows, eel grass
beds, and canyon. Unlikely you'll see much at places like the Cove except
perhaps for horn sharks. And soupfins (if early summer). And the
rare blue shark.
Does that help?
John"
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