Snorkeling - who has encountered a shark?

[justcrusn]

Black tip reef shark was the coolest, never been bothered by a shark, lots of nurse sharks but they are often underneath something and not moving. Only once a sea turtle and would love to see that again!

[OCruisers]

Only a nurse shark ....

 

LuLu

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[Bluemoon319]

I've encountered sharks numerous times while snorkeling. The coolest was when I was on a whale shark tour. There were also a couple of manta rays there, too.

 

Manta ray from the surface

 

 

Whale sharks

 

 

[YubaSutter]

Just curious who has encountered a shark while snorkeling? Or if not what was the coolest thing you saw and where?

 

We swam with sharks and stingrays at Shark Ray Alley in Belize. Awesome.

[Capt_BJ]

a few critters from over the years

 

ship was stopped and crew was having swim call on the other side when I snapped this from the bridge

 

looking straight down from the bow . .

 

 

This is in the Gulf of Haiti ... near Port A Prince . . . somewhat out of place and unexpected . . IMO

 

 

Diving in the Keys, this guy would not leave me alone . .

 

 

 

nuf said

 

on a recent trip to Cayman I was diving at Eden Rock while there was a ton of snorkelers above me. I was checking out a good sized nurse shark that was just chill'n under an overhang such that the snork's could not see ... and laughing that if I goosed the shark into coming out I'd probably see all those snork's walk on water!!!!

[Laurie S.]

That must have been hard to resist! :)

[LH25]

While staying at a resort on St. Thomas, locals told us about "Charley", the resident 6 ft. barracuda. They said he wouldn't attack, but was very territorial, so stay out of his way, and that if you saw him to stay calm, don't splash or act panicked. No one seemed to be able to tell us where his territory was.

 

So, we're snorkeling along the shore in shallow water, with me ahead of husband, just admiring all the fish. Looked down and all of a sudden, there he was, just floating about 3 feet below me. I swear he was looking up at me and looked much bigger than 6 ft. Staying calm and still was very hard, but I just slowly pushed away, then tried to signal husband to go around. He spotted Charley like I had, so it all ended well. Without the prior warning, I don't know that we would have reacted as calmly as we did.

 

I wonder if it was "Charley" or maybe a member of his family we met? Same idea, we were told there was a barracuda in the area. At one point I looked down, and there he was. Teeth and all! Freaked out my then 9 YO niece who was 1/2 back to the boat before I realized it. It's still the main thing she talks about when talking about her cruise. And she says it's one of her favorite memories.:confused: