Bull Shark

Description:

Photo take at -80 ft on a coral reef at the edge of the wall , another epic shark dive fantastic big females coming from the depth accompanied by Spearfish remora´s just checking us for like 20 minutes really curios, this is the birthing season in this waters for this amazing fish. Heavy set body. Broad, short snout. Eyes proportionately small. First dorsal large and pointed. Upper body uniformly grey fading to paler grey on the belly. Tips of all fins and trailing edge of caudal fin are sometimes dusky. No interdorsal ridge.The bull shark is the best known of 43 species of elasmobranch in ten genera and four families to have been reported in fresh water.

Habitat:

Find it in Turbid inshore waters, lagoons, estuaries, freshwater rivers and lakes, coastlines, and reef environments down to 150 mt. The Bull shark is famous for its habit of occasionally swimming upstream hundreds of miles in some river systems such as the Mississippi, Amazon, Zambezi, and Lake Nicaragua. Diet consists of many food types including bony fishes, turtles, seals, crabs, and squid, find worlwide.