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