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Description: Ormoc City, Philippines
Location ID: Donsol

Water depth: Unknown

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Occurrence ID: 5c291d02-8f3d-4a69-a9cd-7d5624d8c6d5

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Romel "MeLL" Aparis
ur.design.com@gmail.com

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Metadata

Number: 178201115920

Date created:	2011-08-17
Date last edited:	2024-08-20 00:26:07

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Measurements

Type	Size	Units
Length	6.0	Meters
Water Temperature		Celsius

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Date

2011-08-13 11:00
Verbatim Event Date: None

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Attributes

Taxonomy Rhincodon typus

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Status: alive

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Sex: unknown

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Noticeable scarring: one of the whale shark family has a fish gun rod on the head

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Additional comments:
this family of 4 whale sharks (Butandings as we call it in the Philippines) was spotted last August 10, 2011, and my first encounter with the whale sharks is on the 2nd day at 05:15pm, Thursday, August 11, 2011 am just of a small fisherman's boat (bangka). On the third day with them at around 11:00am i did swim with the 3 whale sharks and found out that the one smaller whale shark has a fish gun rod on the head ... I called the biggest whale shark as Rodel (one on the photo underneath the pumpboat/motor operated fisherman's boat with a capacity for 8 persons)... our newly form group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/118822601550074/

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