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Salmon Shark at Redondo
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 7:27 pm
by waterproofboat
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
Re: Salmon Shark at Redondo
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 7:53 pm
by BillZ
No pictures = No shark
Re: Salmon Shark at Redondo
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 7:59 pm
by Tangfish
I wanna see that thing!
Re: Salmon Shark at Redondo
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 8:13 pm
by YellowEye
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.
Re: Salmon Shark at Redondo
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 9:25 pm
by Tangfish
Was it holding perfectly still too?
Re: Salmon Shark at Redondo
Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2014 11:44 pm
by waterproofboat
I think it was posing for a picture for us
...too bad neither of us had a camera on us.
Re: Salmon Shark at Redondo
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 8:49 am
by oldsalt
Re: Salmon Shark at Redondo
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 9:26 am
by ljjames
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
Re: Salmon Shark at Redondo
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 8:24 pm
by Tom Nic
Hmmm.... I smell a hoax...
Re: Salmon Shark at Redondo
Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2014 8:48 pm
by dscuba
Could it be the "cow shark" seen in the recent Shark-dondo video?
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=735753046462185
Re: Salmon Shark at Redondo
Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2014 7:49 pm
by ljjames
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.
Re: Salmon Shark at Redondo
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 8:00 pm
by Tangfish
There was a zebra shark too!
Re: Salmon Shark at Redondo
Posted: Sat Oct 18, 2014 8:23 pm
by Scubie Doo
Tangfish wrote:There was a zebra shark too!
I saw that last night. Kind of creepy if you don't know it's there.
Re: Salmon Shark at Redondo
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 9:15 pm
by johndo88
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.