r/sharks • u/Mario507 Tiger Shark 🦈 • 5d ago

Video Oceanic white tips at night

Because I saw the video of the night dive with the whale shark.

This was on a liveaboard where oceanic white tips cycled our boat. I took ma not too expensive camera, tied a rope to it and hung it down in the water.

I wouldn't have gone in that water at night for a million Euros..

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u/GravyPainter 4d ago

Damn, how far out were you? They should be a pretty rare sight no?

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u/Mario507 Tiger Shark 🦈 4d ago

About 60km of the Egyptian coast in the red sea at the brother islands. They are quite common there, they follow the diving boats to these islands.

I was driving there a few times and almost always saw some of them, mostly at the safety stops near the boats. At the end of 2018 these islands were closed for scuba diving because the sharks got too many and some incidents happened.

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u/GravyPainter 4d ago

Oh makes sense they would follow boats. Ive seen so many fisherman throwing in scraps