Yesterday [10/05/2007] at the height of Koh Tao’s whale shark season, we got another great encounter!

This time it was DJL Diving instructor Matt [again] with a group of certified divers, diving at the Chumphon Pinacles.

During the first dive, the group just caught a glimpse of the big fish. It was decided to make a second dive at the same site, and the decision paid off! The whale shark circled the pinnacle for the entire second dive. After a long session swimming with the whale shark, Matt decided to lead the group off towards barracuda rock [to have a look at some other fish]. The whale shark then followed them!

This one was about 6 – 7 metres long. The bad news is that it had a rope wrapped around it’s tail [presumably part of a net or buoy line]. The rope looked like it had been on there for sometime as it had eaten into the flesh causing a serious injury. Discussing with some other Koh Tao instructors, they report having seen the same whale shark, with rope last season [2006].

After seeing two whale sharks in the last 10 days, Matt has people queing up to dive with him!

Whilst conducting the last two dives of a PADI Open Water Course, DJL Instructor Matt Notte and his two students (Carina & Edward) got a close up encounter with a whale shark.

During Open Water Dive 3, the group saw a 4 – 5 metre long whale shark, which remained around the pinnacle for the entire dive.

Unfortunately no camera this time!

Over the past month we’ve had many Whale Shark sightings around the island. These big fish have been spotted around White Rock and Nangyuan Island, on the East Side at Laem Thian and Tanote Bay, plus many sighting out at the Chumphon Pinnacles.

And another unexpected treat – DJL Instructor Les Skelton and his BSAC Ocean Diver student got to see a giant Eagle Ray at white Rock. Les reckons the giant elasmobranch was over three metres across! Not bad!

whale shark sighted at the unicorn shipwreck swimming around the bars throughout the deco a 3 mtr whale shark .we seem to see a lot of whalesharks on the wrecks because everybody holds the shape of there profile without swimming after the whalesharks they hang around making it an unforgetable experance