the behemoth you see before you is a whale shark.
The whale shark is the largest fish in the ocean. It is massive, and was only discovered during the late 80’s. Which means that, not that much is known about it. We went from Thailand into Burmese waters <> to try to find one. In Burma, we didn’t see another foreign vessel. Occasionally, the small sampan boat, with about 5 fisherman.
The Burmese waters are somewhat depleted because the government there doesn’t protect their waters from over fishing as they do in neighboring Thailand. So we didn’t get to see as much as we wanted, but on the second day there, we did see 2 massive whale sharks, and they were only baby ones too. They are amazing to see under the water, and even amongst many of the more experienced divers, a rarity to see.
This photo was taken by Kirby. Swimming along the whale shark are some remoras.
# posted by jason @ 7:01 AM
