4 results for month: 07/2007
Shane Stigants Kayaking Tale: Two odd behaviours in a shark.
Here is an account of the unusual basking shark behaviour witnessed on Friday 20th July 2007. Both occurrences happened towards the end of a vigil on 4 sharks (6 to 8 M) in the strand line area about 0.5 miles off Fleshwick. The sharks were well spaced, over 100m between individual sharks. However at one point two of the sharks did cross paths and separated without any interaction that was obvious to me. I was sat in the area in the kayak for about 3 hours. The sea had a slight ripple though oily calm within the strand line that was about 15m wide and stretched from Brada head to Niarbyl. The strand line had a good number of associated moon jelly-fish ...
“Jousting” sharks off Fleshwick Bay
On the evening of Wednesday 11th July we took ourselves off to Fleshwick to see if we could spot any sharks. Having been there twice previously this summer and having had sightings on both occasions, we arrived at 7.45pm with high hopes - and were not disappointed. Climbing to the top of the small rise on the right of the car park gave us about 50' elevation above sea level and a perfect platform for shark spotting using a pair of 10x50 binoculars and another pair of 12x50 bins. There were no sharks close in, but on our first scan of the middle distance a shark was spotted feeding close under the rocks at "The Boe", about 50 metres from shore. Shortly ...
Possible Basking Shark Courtship Behavior Videoed: by Ian Judd
I was fortunate to be witness, between 18.00 – 20.15 on Saturday 7th July 2007, 3 basking sharks about 1 km NW of Peel breakwater. I sat taking some photos from my kayak then would predict the shark’s trajectory and anticipate that it would or might pass by me. So I jumped into the water from my sit-on-top kayak with mask, fins and snorkel and equipped with my underwater digital camera clicked away. On several occasions the sharks did pass by and I snapped away despite the poor visibility, the large preponderance of jellyfish and a generally variable evening as regards weather (cloudy, showers, sun).
Having dreamt of Saturday evening’s ...
Jenni 7th Wave Port Erin: Dennis the Tagged Shark Shows up in Port Erin Bay 17 days after Being Tagged!
"Anyone in Port Erin last Saturday may well have spotted Dennis. Dennis is a 6.5m basking shark who was feeding in Port Erin Bay from about 11am to 5pm last Saturday (7th July 2007). And what a fantastic site, Juan Watterson (not the MHK!) took one of our kayaks out and was paddling around with the shark for about an hour. At the same time a handful of people ventured out to it with only a surfboard to hang on to. Myself and Ffinlo were out sailing in one of the RS Teras (which turned out to be about one third of the size of the shark itself!). We decided we'd 'go and check the shark out' as it is not often that they venture into the Bay, so off we ...
