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Number: 2102013124159

Date created:	2013-10-02
Date last edited:	2024-08-20 13:07:43

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Managing researcher:

Jason Holmberg

Affiliation: Wild Me

Research Project: Wildbook

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"Jason is a founder of Wildbook for Whale Sharks and its Information Architect."

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Length		Meters
Water Temperature		Celsius

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Taxonomy Rhincodon typus

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Status: alive

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Source video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN3j8bVnf1E

Footage from swimming with a whale shark off the West End of Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras. Was a big one, probably 25 - 30 ft.

Tracking him by the jumping schools of tuna and sardines, it took 4 jumps into the water and about 30 minutes before we were finally able to find the whale shark and swim with him. He stayed within 5 to 20 feet of the surface for about 20 minutes, feeding on plankton, before heading back down to deeper water.

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