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Whale shark

Rhincodon typus

Description:

Photo take close to the surface this is special big, close to 30 ft long.

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19 Comments

nickashforth
nickashforth 11 years ago

Beautiful pictures! Perhaps you would consider adding this to a mission: http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/1607...

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 11 years ago

Thanks Harsha and Nitch is the larges fish in the world no a whale :)

Nitch
Nitch 12 years ago

wouldn't this be considered a mammal???

Harsha Singh
Harsha Singh 12 years ago

I so want to see them in person. I might see you one day. :)

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 12 years ago

Thanks Harsha! not really we can´t dive whit them but snorkel is aloud and sometimes i take people to see them.

Harsha Singh
Harsha Singh 12 years ago

Amazing Gerardo! Do you take people to swim with those whale sharks?

vipin.baliga
vipin.baliga 12 years ago

This is just spectacular...!!!
Thanks a ton for sharing this.. :-0

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 12 years ago

Thanks DanDeVita

DanDeVita
DanDeVita 12 years ago

Amazing spotting! Wow.

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 12 years ago

Thanks Nicholas Sanjay and FoTony

Nicholas4
Nicholas4 12 years ago

Incredible! Wish I was there too!

SanjaySaklani
SanjaySaklani 12 years ago

A whole milky way moving underneath water. Nature you are magnificent.

FoTony
FoTony 12 years ago

Very nice, I love these creatures. I have had the luck to encounter them twice. One time in the Red Sea and one time in the Phillipines near MoalBoal. The last encounter I have filmed. It is a overwelming feeling to swim near this giants of the sea.

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 12 years ago

Thank you Steve
I have to say your collection is wonderful love your photos.
Wish you can dive whit this gentile giants some day.

Steve A
Steve A 12 years ago

Your underwater photographs are brilliant. I hope one day to dive with the whale-sharks on Nigaloo Reef

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 12 years ago

Thanks Nightstar you should try scuba some day is like enter in another planet.

Nightstar
Nightstar 12 years ago

Oh, I bet. The sea has always fascinated me. I can imagine it being so calming to just swim and view all the beauty it has. You're very lucky to have done so!

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 12 years ago

Thanks Night star
Is a very deep filling when you have it in front so big so alive.

Nightstar
Nightstar 12 years ago

I would looove to see one of these guys first hand. I find them so beautiful.

Gerardo Aizpuru
Spotted by
Gerardo Aizpuru

Mexico

Spotted on Jul 5, 2011
Submitted on Jan 5, 2012

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