SHARK DIVING HOTSPOTS
The best places to dive
with sharks and rays around the world
Monad Shoal, Malapascua - Pelagic
Thresher Sharks and Whitespotted Bamboosharks.
Los Gigantes, Tenerife - common
stingrays, eagle rays, roughtail rays.
El Cabron Marine Reserve, Canary Islands - Common Angel Sharks.
Fish Rock, NSW, Australia -
Banded wobbegongs, dwarf ornate wobbegongs, grey nurse sharks, blind sharks,
shark rays and more.
Quadra Island, British
Columbia, Canada - Spiny Dogfish.
Hornby Island, British
Columbia, Canada - Sixgill Sharks.
Shark Safaris, Bahamas
- Tiger Sharks, Great Hammerheads, Caribbean Reef Sharks, Bul
Sharks, and Lemon Sharks.
The Outer Banks, North
Carolina, USA - Sandtiger Sharks.
Catalina
Island Blue Water, California, USA - Blue sharks and Mako
sharks.
The Lizard
Peninsula, Cornwall, UK - Basking Sharks.
Stingray City, Grand Cayman - Southern Stingrays.
Hamelin Bay, Western Australia - Cobbler Wobbegong, Necklace Carpet Shark.
Ningaloo Reef, western
Australia - Whale Sharks, Whitetip Reef, Tasseled
Wobbegong, Wards Wobbegong shark.
Cocos Island, Costa Rica
- Scalloped Hammerheads, Silkies, Silvertips, Prickly Sharks, Galapagos, Whale
sharks, Whitetip Reef sharks, and Marble Rays.
St Maarten, Netherland Antilles - Blacknose and Caribbean Reef Sharks.
Holbox Mexico -
Whale Sharks and Manta Rays
Venice, Louisiana
- Dusky Sharks, Scalloped Hammerheads and more.
Guadalupe Island, Mexico
- Great White Shark cage diving.
Utila, Honduras - Whale
sharks
Isla Malpelo - smalltooth
sandtigers, schooling hammerheads, whitetips, Galapagos sharks and whale sharks
SHARK BIOLOGY AND
BEHAVIOR
Biology,
physiology, and behavioral traits of sharks and rays.
SHARK SENSES -
SENSORY OVERLOAD!
ELASMOBRANCH LOCOMOTION - SINK OR SWIM
DIET AND DENTITION - CRUSHERS, BITERS, AD
SHAKERS
SHARK DIVING 101 An introduction
to the do's and dont's of shark diving
THREATENED SHARKS Information
and articles detailing the plight of different shark and ray species.
THE RED LIST An excerpt from
the IUCN red list listing the threatened status of many shark
species.
ABOUT
ELASMODIVER
why elasmodiver? an intro page.
SHARK FACTS FOR
STUDENTS AND TEACHERS -
basic shark and ray information.
Shark Conservation
PROTECTING SHARKS
Organizations and Activists
THE PREDATORS IN PERIL
PROJECT Elasmodiver Pubic Awareness Campaign
SHARK T AXONOMY A list of all
known shark, ray, and chimaera species in taxonomic order
NEW
SHARK SPECIES Newly described or discovered
species of sharks and rays.
SHARK E VOLUTION A brief
introduction to the evolution of sharks and rays.
SHARK DIVING
STORIES
A list of published shark diving articles authored by the webmaster
Salmon Shark Diving
Encounters with mini great whites in Prince William Sound Alaska
Hammered on Bimini
diving with Great Hammerheads in the Bahamas
Redspotted Catsharks of Chile
diving with Pinta Roja off the coast of Pacific South America.
Fantastic False Bay
Diving with Great whites, sevengills and many species of catsharks
in South Africa.
Thresher Sharks of Malapascua
Island Diving with Pelagic Thresher Sharks in the
Philippines.
Isla Malpelo: Seamount of
Monsters diving with the smalltooth sandtigers of Malpelo
Island.
The Deep Sharks of Cape
Eleuthera documenting deep sea shark species in the
Bahamas.
Paradise Found at Fakarava diving with hundreds of Grey Reef Sharks
in French Polynesia.
Refugees of the Gulf Oil Spill
the plight of the Gulf of Mexico Smoothhound.
Muck Monsters of the Badlands diving with skates and spotted ratfish.
Seize the Day diving with sandtigers in the Diamond Shoals while you
still can.
Shark Diving 101 do's and donts
of shark diving.
Sharpnose Sharks the life history
and demise of one of the most abundant sharks in the sea.
Master of Disguise diving with
cobbler wobbegong sharks.
Oceanic Odyssey diving with
oceanic whitetip sharks at Cat Island.
A Day at the Beach Tiger Beach.
Macho Mako
a close encounter with a dangerous mako.
Winged Wonders of
the Canary Islands Diving with rays at Los Gigantes
Shark Diving for Dummies You
should read this...
North American
Shark Diving Tour Part 1
North American
Shark Diving Tour Part 2
North American
Shark Diving Tour Part 3
North American
Shark Diving Tour Part 4
North American Shark Diving Tour Part
5
North American Shark Diving Tour Part 6
North American Shark Diving Tour Part 7
Chasing Angel Sharks diving with
common angel sharks in Gran Canaria
Chasing Porbeagles Working with
researchers to tag porbeagle sharks in the Bay of Fundy
Shark Fever
Risking all to shoot rare sharks
The High Price of
Shark Fin Soup the shark fin trade exposed
Cornish
Catsharks diving with lesserspotted catsharks
Spiny Dogfish at Quadra Island
diving with BC spurdogs
Hammers
and Tigers in the Bahamas diving with great
hammerheads and tiger sharks
The Sandtigers of North Carolina
diving with sharks on the wrecks of the Outer Banks
Addicted to Rays a fixation
with chasing stingrays
Land of the Giants
Basking Sharks of Porthkerris
Searching for Sixgill Sharks
diving with bluntnose sixgill sharks around Vancouver Island
Tassled
Wobbegongs diving with wobbegongs under the Exmouth Navy Pier
Stingray City
on Steroids shore diving with stingrays in Hamelyn Bay
The Spectacular Spiny Dogfish
spiny dogfish exposed
Reef Shark Rampage
in St Maarten diving with Caribbean reef sharks
Ghost Sharks - Spotted Ratfish
diving with Hydrolagus collei
Invasion of the Port Jackson
Sharks diving in a Port Jackson Shark nusery in Albany, WA.
Fish Rock - Banded Wobbegongs Down Under
diving at Wobbegong Central
Chasing Rays in Baja California Sur
stingrays of the Sea of Cortez
Eye Contact
Diving with Porbeagles in the Bay of Fundy
The Swell Shark's Last Stand
diving with swell sharks in California
SHARK M OVIES
Reviews of shark documentaries and tongue in cheek shark movie reviews
SHARKFEST
Elasmodiver's shark film festival
Sharkfest 2010
Trip Report
SHARK B OOKS
Reviews of a long
list of shark books and magazines
SHARK ATTACKS An introduction
into the dynamics of shark attacks and the treatment of victims
SHARK
PHOTOGRAPHY An introduction into the fundamentals of
photographing sharks
The Ethics of Photographing Sharks
Shark Photography -
Composition
Shark Photography - Strobe Use
Shark Photography - Exposure
Challenges
Shark Photography -
Photographing Sharks at Night
Shark Photography - Shooting
rays in the sand.
Shark Photography -
Getting Close
Shark Photography - Working with
the Shark Girl
Underwater Photography
Workshop Course Outline
SHARK BLOG 2012
SHARK
BLOG 2011
Andy Murch - Shark Photographer and
Creator of Elasmodiver
SHARK
FEEDING Information, advice, training resources, equipment, and
cautions.
The Shark Feeding
Controversy Opinions, ethics, and repercussions of feeding sharks.
Shark Feeding Techniques exploring the different styles of shark feeding
MORE FROM ELASMODIVER...
ADVERTISE ON ELASMODIVER
ELASMOBLOG
ARCHIVES The wramblings of a frustrated
shark photographer
ELASMODIVER
UPDATES a chronological list of changes and additions to
Elasmodiver.
SHARK LINKS -
A very long list of shark resources on the internet.
PREDATORS IN PERIL PROJECT
ELASMODIVER
GLOSSARY OF SHARK TERMS A list of
scientific terms used in the text.
LIST OF C ONTRIBUTORS Information on
the contributing photographers showcased on Elasmodiver.
ELASMODIVER CONTACT INFORMATION
Mailing address / phone number for image enquiries.
FEEDBACK letters
from the readers of Elasmodiver.com
PROJECT DEEP SHARK expanding the
horizons of shark photography with a deep ocean camera housing
ELASMODIVER
EMAIL
The BC Marinelife Index A photographic portfolio of
marine images of Britsh Columbia by Andy Murch
Andy's Schedule
DIVE SHOPS The Dive Shop
Project
Shark Picture Pages in other
Languages:
Imágenes de tiburones
The Shark Picture Database translated into Espa ñ ol.