Erich Ritter where we’ll be learning more about these animals, their behavior and diving with them and shark scientists in the last week of May.Ĭall or email Bill for travel tips, flights, routes or booking questions. We are ramping up the shark education and diving with Dr. This is also a popular snorkeling site due to the closeness of the encounters, you don’t need scuba, the show is almost as good at the surface. There’s every opportunity to photograph these sharks from being under the corral head with them, or in the clear blue.ĭropping down the wall and watching the shark school from depth offers a surreal view. Mostly Grey Reef sharks with a mix of Black Tip and, occasional, White Tips anywhere between 3 and 7 feet long make up this group of animals. Sharks in the blue, making tight turns between divers and swimming right up to your lens making eye contact. Photographers can work around the reef wall shooting 360 degrees of shark behavior as long as you want. This is how you can get as close as you want to these animals while they circle the reef. This type of shark dive has everything but the feeding, the bait just brings everything in closer for longer. This day we brought about 8 guests and a wire box of fish bones. Vertigo, a 20 minute boat ride from the Resort, is where shark dives are happening everyday, year round. Here’s a weekday morning on the East reef. Both manta rays and stingrays are related to sharks under the cartilaginous fish group chondrichthyes, meaning their structure is built on material similar to that found in our nose and ears. Yap is a big animal ecological reserve and the result is a healthy population of not-that-shy reef sharks that don’t mind divers, cameras, strobes or boats. Let’s face it, manta rays and stingrays look pretty similar and you can only spot the differences if you know what you’re looking for. The lagoon and mangrove areas are important for the sharks, as well as the Manta Rays.
Thanks to the Manta Ray Sanctuary program, started by Bill and backed by the State govt, all big animals benefit from the habitat protection.
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