WHALE SHARK at Sail Rock!

After almost having to cancel our Wednesday Sail Rock trip due to questionable weather and a couple of drop-outs we decided to head out there anyway with three excited divers ready to hold on tight! The journey proved to be pretty smooth and we made it the 30Km to Sail Rock in under 40mins. The conditions were perfect; minimal currents, up to 25m vis and more fish than you could shake a stick at. We dropped down the chimney (a vertical swim thru from 5 to 18m) and crused around the pinnacle's steep walls confronted with all kinds of creatures. As well as many giant groupers, massive yellow tailed barracuda, Great barracuda, snappers, emperor fish, yellow box fish, giant morray's ect, it was the travallies that really gave us a show (and were the likely cause of the biggest fish in the sea arriving). It looked like they were having a mass spawning with a huge energetic shoel forming from 30m up to the surface, individualy dive bombing the rock and manny forming pairs, the lower fish turning to a dark almost balck colour. An amazing sight. As we slowly came up through the shoel for our safety stop I heard a high pitched scream and Shireen was pointing franticly at something behind me. I quickly turned and instantly emited the same bubbly scream as the massive form of a Whlae Shark cruised slowly passed us. It gave us one of the best safety stops I have ever had just slowly swimming under, over, around and in between us, right under the boat! This proved very lucky for Tim who was driving the boat that day and had seen its massive patterend head from the surfance and free dived down to swim with it as well.















I would like to thank my lucky Whale Shark divers, Anauk and Poffet, who had seen a Whale Shark just off the Koh Tao coast just a few days before. I hope they contunue to attract Whale Sharks for all who dive with them!