| We look to the stars at night and try to | | | | turtle. The turtle was clearly |
| understand our universe, but we forget | | | | distressed by the unwanted attention of |
| that our earth is seven tenths water and | | | | some irresponsible divers. By |
| this undersea alien environment we have | | | | distressing the turtle in this way it |
| hardly scratched the surface. I have | | | | was giving a clear signal through the |
| spent many weekends and holidays | | | | water of being distressed. |
| travelling and diving around some of the | | | | A tiger shark had picked up these |
| wonderful locations around the world. | | | | signals and had starting to home in on |
| Some of the places that I have dived are | | | | this turtle and the divers where |
| so rich with diverse life and stunning | | | | suddenly confronted by a reasonably |
| creatures unique to their environment. | | | | sized Tiger shark that attacked the |
| On a recent trip to Egypt's Sharm El | | | | turtle and bit a large amount of it. |
| Sheikh where there is some of the best | | | | The divers all panicked and managed to |
| diving in the world to be done. I had a | | | | get pulled out of the water but they had |
| small amount of trouble being mistaken | | | | caused a sea creature to perish by |
| as a terrorist but managed with the aid | | | | stupidity. The rest of the diving trips |
| of the British Consulate to overcome | | | | did not produce any close encounters |
| this problem. | | | | with sharks. When diving off towards the |
| I had come to Dive Ras Mohamed which has | | | | reef shelf you can sometime see larger |
| National Park status here we did a | | | | sharks white tips and others. |
| number of Drift Dives and had a bit of a | | | | Other interesting spots to dive in the |
| Scare around Jackson Reef with there are | | | | Red Sea area are the Thistlegorm a |
| known to be Tiger Sharks in the area. | | | | vessel that was sunk by a dive-bomber |
| Tiger Sharks are known for being the | | | | and has now become one of the most |
| second most dangerous of the shark | | | | famous wrecks in diving. This is due to |
| species to man. They tend to have the | | | | the cargo that is still viewable in the |
| desire to eat anything and having read | | | | holds. |
| about some of the stomach contents of | | | | Also it was carrying two steam |
| Tiger Sharks caught that have included | | | | locomotives I managed to spend sometime |
| diverse items such as number plates and | | | | looking at one of the locomotives that |
| body parts. | | | | had landed upright on the sea bed |
| The Tiger shark is named for the stripes | | | | absolutely a must to see if you on a |
| than can be seen along the side of the | | | | dive holiday. |
| streamline body. They have an incredible | | | | Also fun is to see another wreck, which |
| amount of sophisticated senses located | | | | had a large amount of Plumbing, and |
| along their Ampullae of Lorenzini which | | | | bathroom equipment on board it is an odd |
| has the ability of detecting small | | | | site seeing a bath on the sea floor. As |
| amounts of electricity that are given | | | | a professional diver it's always good to |
| off by potential dinner whether this is | | | | use the best available dive boats and |
| a turtle in distress there normal source | | | | crews. I have found that the red sea |
| of food or the more unusual signals | | | | diving college to be the best available |
| given off by a diver. | | | | in the area. |
| During a period a lot of Dive boats | | | | So if you are considering a diving |
| where grouped together an unfortunate | | | | excursion in the red Sea go and see them |
| incident occurred a number of divers | | | | and explore some of the best reefs and |
| where trying to play with a large sea | | | | wrecks available in the world. |