Located in the Caribbean Sea just off the northeastern tip of the Yucatan Peninsula, the waters of Isla Mujeres continue to play host to hundreds of whale sharks each year, in a phenomenon that scientists now think has been taking place for many years, despite its relatively recent scientific discovery in 2009.
Marine Species
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The whale shark, Rhincodon typus, is the largest living Chondrichthye, or cartilaginous fish, in the world, with the largest confirmed specimen coming in at over 40 feet long.
Their striking colors, in the form of 50 to 60 bright blue, pulsating rings, only appear when the animals become agitated; when they’re at rest, their coloration is muted.
There are 500 species in this classification, including halibut and sole. With regard to the flounder, there are six known species.
There’s an alliterative saying among divers: yum yum yellow, which refers to the idea that sharks prefer yellow. Is it a myth, or are sharks really attracted to the color?
Seeing manta rays is no doubt on many a diver’s bucket list. These large, acrobatic, graceful and harmless marine creatures capture the imagination and hearts of every one who has dived with them — and plenty of those who haven’t yet had the chance.
If Lydia makes it to the U.K., she’ll be the first-known great white to cross the Atlantic
11,417 sharks are killed per hour. Slaughter led by unsustainable finning.
These sharks cast a kind of spell — you desperately want them to stay, but they command too much respect to even consider chasing them.
Sea cucumbers (class Holothurioidea) are echinoderms, an invertebrate animal characterized by their hard internal skeleton and the regular presence of a spine.
In the past week, images of the blood-stained waters of Japan’s Taiji cove have made their way into international media, providing sickening proof of the massacre recently committed there.
The No. 1 spot on my list, however, never changes — my ultimate underwater experience will always be a face-to-face encounter with nature’s largest mammal, the whale.
The Portuguese man o’ war , also known as the Portuguese man-of-war, man-of-war, or bluebottle, though often mistaken as a common jellyfish, is a marine cnidarian of the family Physaliidae. Its venomous tentacles can deliver a painful sting.
The symbiotic algae that live in the polyps’ tissues, zooxanthellae, convert sunlight and carbon dioxide into sugars and oxygen, using photosynthesis.
The distribution includes the coastal North Pacific, along California, Oregon, Washington, BC, Alaska, Russia, northern Japan and Korea.
Swimming with whales sharks may be one of the best experiences I have ever had.