Salmon Shark at Redondo

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Salmon Shark at Redondo

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On a dive today at Redondo near Salty's around 5PM I ran into a salmon shark bigger than my dive partner who is 5'10''. Has anyone else here had the pleasure of seeing one of these amazing but incredibly intimidating creatures?

here is a link on wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_shark
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No pictures = No shark
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I wanna see that thing!
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Very cool!

Somebody else (I think that works at a local dive shop, can't remember for sure) recently mentioned they saw one out at the straights.
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Was it holding perfectly still too? :D
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I think it was posing for a picture for us :rofl: ...too bad neither of us had a camera on us.
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My salmon shark story
http://www.nwdiveclub.com/viewtopic.php ... rk#p197011
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20 odd years ago with my dive buddy Parker at fox island e wall...

Way cool that you saw one! Makes sense cause it's Salmon season :)
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Hmmm.... I smell a hoax... :)
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Could it be the "cow shark" seen in the recent Shark-dondo video?
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Too bad if its a hoax...

In our sighting we were coming up the sandy area that cascades kind of between walls and we looked 'upslope' (it was a night dive) and barreling down the slope at us was something that looked like a smallish great white. My dive buddy was a fisheries major, studying salmon and things, and ran the sighting by prof's at the UW who confirm that there are Salmon Sharks in Puget Sound, they are occasionally caught as by catch by salmon fishermen.
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There was a zebra shark too!
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Tangfish wrote:There was a zebra shark too!
I saw that last night. Kind of creepy if you don't know it's there.
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Scubie Doo wrote:
Tangfish wrote:There was a zebra shark too!
I saw that last night. Kind of creepy if you don't know it's there.
Kinda creeped my out when I came upon it on a night dive. Took me a few seconds to figure it out. :)
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