Whale Sharks

Is there a location to dive to see whale sharks in August or September?

Thanks,
Dave

I haven't had enough experience with these wonderful fish to be an expert
but I think you will find that there are several locations and they will
probably all be snorkeling rather than diving expeditions.

Jeanne

> Is there a location to dive to see whale sharks in August or September?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave

"bjeanneb" <bjeanneb@satx.rr.com> wrote in message
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> I haven't had enough experience with these wonderful fish to be an expert
> but I think you will find that there are several locations and they will
> probably all be snorkeling rather than diving expeditions.

I think you're wrong.

Snorkeling at Wolf and Darwin Islands would be lousy.

I'm more than willing to stand corrected. The trips that I knew about were
all snorkeling but I just Googled Darwin and found an account of diving with
whale sharks. All the better!

Jeanne

The whale sharks seasson at Darwin Island at the Galapagus islands is at
July.

"dsarvela" <dsarvela@chromaline.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a location to dive to see whale sharks in August or September?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
>

"Ilan Ben Tov-Yahoo" <ilanbt@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> The whale sharks seasson at Darwin Island at the Galapagus islands is at
> July.

I saw unseassonable whale sharks at June in the Galapagus islands. What
thinks you not be whale sharks there at August? Are they on a tight
schedule?

"dsarvela" <dsarvela@chromaline.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a location to dive to see whale sharks in August or September?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave
>
http://www.divedarwin.net/ will answer your question.

"Greg Mossman" <mossman@qnet.com> wrote in message
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"What thinks you not be whale sharks there at August?"

Ummm... of all the people to post this gibberish, I never expected it to be
Greg. Hitting the bottle a little early today?

"Randy Buckner" <Randybuckner@att.net> wrote in message
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> "dsarvela" <dsarvela@chromaline.com> wrote in message
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> > Is there a location to dive to see whale sharks in August or September?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave
> >
> http://www.divedarwin.net/ will answer your question.

Or, better yet, www.aggressor.com.

Here's the trip report from the week before I went:

http://www.aggressor.com/capt_log.php?log_id=168

Saves me from having to write my own. Same water temps, same big fish.

bjeanneb <bjeanneb@satx.rr.com> wrote:
>I haven't had enough experience with these wonderful fish to be an expert
>but I think you will find that there are several locations and they will
>probably all be snorkeling rather than diving expeditions.

To be more precise, the whale shark encounter may be snorkel based.
I was diving in Roatan when it came over the radio that one was cruising
by. So we detoured on the way back to dock to find it, and jumped in
to swim along with it. At the pace it was swimming, no diver would keep
up for long. I did get enough time to get a few ok pics with an aquashot.
--
Jason O'Rourke www.jor.com