Scuba Diving - Whale Shark Project


Whale Shark Project




A man named Jason Holmberg, who lives in Portland Oregon, is coordinating a global project to monitor whale-sharks.

Whale-sharks are the biggest fish on earth and one of the ocean’s gentle giants: whale-sharks can grow to 60 feet in length but do so on a diet that consists solely of plankton.

Encounters with whale-sharks (also known as blue whalers) are dreamt about by most SCUBA divers as the whale-shark is such a large but gentle creature.

Many divers who have come across a whale-shark on a dive declare the experience to be truly humbling. Indeed Mr. Holmberg himself comments on meeting a whale-shark, stating that its eyes “will track you; you can look at it, and it will look back at you… It’s like contact with alien life”.

Mr. Holmberg intends to help us to improve our understanding of whale-sharks though this research project: at the moment we know very little about blue whalers such as their life expectancy, reproduction or how social they are.


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