Exmouth Diving Centre Whale Shark report - Thursday 27 May 2010

A little windy and rough today again but surprisingly nice clean blue water on Central Station. It even rained for a very brief period! We had a lovely dive with more mantis shrimp out of their holes, octopus sitting out on top of small coral outcrops, big schools of trevally and barracuda, a couple of green turtles, blue spotted rays, two white tip reef sharks and 1000s of colourful reef fish.
WATER TEMP: 26C
VISIBILITY: 10m
CURRENT: moderate
SURGE: moderate
DEPTH: 15m

The whale sharks were great today! We spent our time with two different whale sharks. Our first one was about 4m long and was cruising happily in a pretty straight line, the tip of his tail breaking the surface as he'd ride the swell up. He would dive deep for a few minutes, then glide back up to the surface to swim along with us for a while longer. Shark #2 was about 7m long and pretty chunky with it. He, too, was swimming really slowly just under the surface. He didn't do as much up and down as our first guy and we swam and swam and swam on multiple drops with him.