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a large library of reviewed shark books, a constantly outdated shark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 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.
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.
