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Once again we have had the fascinating experience of seeing a large number of natural breaches. These are normally spectacular breaches for no apparent reason. They often happen very close to the boat and Chris thinks they may either be trying to have a better look at us or are trying to communicate something. My feeling is that as these breaches often happen when we have a lot of activity around the boat this may be some sort of social reaction of sharks being too close to one another.

I can still clearly see a number of the breaches in my mind. For these events you just have to be looking in the right spot at the right time. Very often we will hear someone shout out in amazement and we will know that we have missed something pretty spectacular. They only breach once, so lucky for those that see it.

Now the bad thing is as that these natural breaches tend to happen close to the boat there is a real possibility of a shark landing in the boat with us. This would probably be a fatal event for the shark and a good possibility of terrible injuries for us on board. On one of our trips in July a 4 meter male did a full breach a meter from our boat and landed against the side of it. Very fortunately, the shark landed back in the water but it gave us all a big scare. We have had a guest spend the whole month with us and he was the one who was eye-ball to eye-ball with the shark…I did not see him spending too much time sitting on the gunnels of the boat after that!

As we do not know the reason for this kind of breaching and because there is no warning, there is not much we can do about preventing this.

-Monique Fallows

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1. Monique & Chris Fallows
   Great Photos! These are incredible images Monique!

   5 months ago

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