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Fish On Fridays.

What is it with everyone going out of their way to swim with sharks? It's a good thing that Black Tips are timid and skittish.

Chilling With The Jellies.

Did I mention microdosing?

Wait, what about shrooms? That will make you dumb and dumber.

Terrified Tuesday.

Hello, Mr. Big Teeth!

Octopus Versus Crab Smack-down. Who Will Win? (Video)

It'll end in tears for one of them. Watch to see the surprising end.

Fish On Fridays.

Talk about fish!

Fish On Fridays.

Hello, Mr. Bigteeth!
By the bye, I'm back.

Hello Mr. Big Teeth, Welcome To The Lineup.

Mick Fanning was not on the menu today. Phew!

Hey Buddy, I'd Like To Take You Out For A Bite Of Lunch.

A photographer captured the startling moment a great white shark burst out of the water opening its jaws just feet away from a cameraman. Australian filmmaker Dave Riggs snapped the dramatic image off the coast of Port Lincoln, Australia, while he was filming for Discovery Channel's Shark Week. The shark, almost 15ft in length, appeared for the once-in-a-lifetime shot after Dave had dipped his other camera into the water. Although the image appears aggressive - the shark, jaws wide open, has scratches and blood across its face - Dave said she was simply checking out the surroundings.

Picture: Caters via the Telegraph

Fish On Fridays.

Batoidea is a superorder of cartilaginous fish commonly known as rays and skates, approximately 560 described species in thirteen families. They are in the fish subclass Elasmobranchii, along with sharks, to which they are closely related. Rays are distinguished by their flattened bodies, enlarged pectoral fins that are fused to the head, and gill slits that are placed on their ventral surfaces.

Fish On Fridays. "Hello Mr. Big Teeth!" (moving pictures)

Nothing like being up close and personal. Mommy!

Monday Morning Mermaid.

Honu!

Happy Monday!

Marine Life Monday.

Nice fish!

Fish: Red Drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) | Wahine: Sara

Hello, Mr. Big Teeth! Robot "Interacts" With Sharks. (Moving Pictures)

REMUS SharkCam: The hunter and the hunted from Woods Hole Oceanographic Inst. on Vimeo.

Hey, this doesn't taste like chicken!

Fish On Fridays. Black Tip Reef Sharks And A Wahine. "Swimming With The Sharks."

Taxonomy 

The blacktip shark was first described by Valenciennes in Muller & Henle (1839) as Carcharias (Prionodon) limbatus. It has also appeared in the literature as Carcharias (Prionodon) pleurotaenia, Carcharias microps, Carcharias (Prionodon)muelleri, Carcharias maculipinna, Carcharias ehrenbergi, Carcharias aethlorus, Gymnorrhinus abbreviatus, Carcharias phorcys, and Carcharhinus natator. The currently valid scientific name is Carcharhinus limbatus (Müller and Henle 1839). The genus name Carcharhinus is derived from the Greek "karcharos" = sharpen and "rhinos" = nose. The species name "limbatus" originates from Latin, meaning bordered in reference to the black markings on its fins. 


Common Names 

The blacktip shark gets its name from its distinctive black markings on the tips of its fins. It is also known as blackfin (Guam, Micronesia, Trinidad and Tobago), black-tipped (Papua New Guinea), small blacktip (Cuba, Leeward Islands), and spot-fin ground shark (UK).


Geographical Distribution 

Blacktip sharks are cosmopolitan in tropical to subtropical coastal, shelf, and island waters. In the Atlantic during their seasonal migration they range from Nova Scotia to Brazil, but their center of abundance is in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. They occur throughout the Mediterranean and along the central West coast of Africa. In the Pacific they range from Southern California to Peru, including the Sea of Cortez. They occur at the Galapagos Islands, Hawaii, Tahiti, and other South Pacific Islands, to the North coast of Australia. In the Indian Ocean they range from South Africa and Madagascar up to the Red Sea, Persian Gulf, throughout India's coast, and east to the coast of China. 


World distribution map for the blacktip shark

Habitat 

The blacktip shark inhabits inshore and offshore waters, but is not a truly pelagic species. They are often seen nearshore around river mouths, bays, mangrove swamps, and in other estuaries, though they do not penetrate far into freshwater. They can be found offshore and over deep waters near coral reef dropoffs, but primarily stay in the upper 100 feet (30 m) of the water column. 
A young blacktip shark cruises the Caribbean shallows
© Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch

 

Hello Mr. Whale, How's Your Summer (Winter...Southern Hemisphere) Going? Kayak Levantado Por Ballena (Moving Pictures)

I know, why don't I give a couple of clueless humans a scare.
Yes boys and girls, you're not living in a pretend world. Wild animals do whatever the heck that want.

Maybe, I Should Rethink Using My Inflatable Kayak. "Yikes!" (Moving Pictures)

Is that the lunch bell ringing?
Mommy!

Surfing Photo Of The Week. Surfing Whales!

There are a couple of new guys in the line up.
Stick, I don't need no damn stick brah!

Hat tip Mark Denzer
Source: Divine Dolphin
Credit: North Shore Surf Photos

Massive Dolphin Stampede. (Moving Pictures) (Wow On Wednesday)

Wow!

Dave Anderson of Capt. Dave’s Dolphin and Whale Safari used a drone to capture this remarkable footage of dolphins, and gray whales migrating off the coast of Southern California, and a humpback whale off of Maui snuggling with her calf.

There's A New Guy In The Lineup, And He Personifies "Locals Only!" (Surfing)

Locals can be intimidating.

A 13-foot crocodile decided to paddle out for a surfing session. For some reason, his appearnce closed down Cable Beach, near Broome Australia, this past Saturday.

"He was a big boy — his head was huge," said local photographer Sharon Scoble, who snapped the incredible images of the surfing reptile.

Read more at Mensup.fr

Aloha Friday.

Oh yes, Valentines Day, when everyone becomes a Parisian, and love is in the air...or in this case in the water....a cross species love? I'm thinking South Park for some reason.

Marlin Monday.

Hello, Joe! What do you know?

Via Marlin Magazine's facebook page | Photo by Martin Firestein, slightly altered by me.