Posts tagged ‘sharks’

Cobia mistaken as shark at Hin Pee Wee

By Simon, 5 July, 2011, 1 Comment

During the morning of 26th DJL was doing their first dive of the day at one of the local deep dive sites Hin Pee Wee just off sairee beach. As we jumped in to the water and took a quick glance below we could see straight away we were in for a great dive as the visibility was amazing at least 30 meters. Once we had descended me and my open water group headed south just beyond the pinnacle as I looked below I noticed a fishing box net and a large shadow moving along the bottom. I turned to my student and pointed for them to look down, at first we thought it was a shark as I have seen black tips around that area many years ago, but I could not see any black on the tip of the dorsal fin and it was difficult to tell what it exactly it was as I was at 17m and the “shark” was at about 25m. During the dive we were being filmed and the videographer had caught the “shark” on camera, when we got back to the shop we checked the footage but we were still unclear what the un identified fish was and due to the shape of the face I was starting to believe it could be a very big Cobia. The following day DJL went to the same dive site again and there was another sighting in the same place. This morning I was teaching Deep Specialty with the Divemasters which was great so I could get deep and get a better glimpse! We were correct it was not a shark it was a Cobia. A Cobia is not from the Shark family but from the Tuna family this is due its extended elongated dorsal fin which means it denotes it to the Tuna family. Hopefully this cobia will keep hanging around at Hin Pee Wee because he’s very interesting to look at.

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Shark Trust

By sea-dog, 2 February, 2010, No Comment

DJL Diving is proud to announce that we are now member of the Shark Trust organization. This is a group dedicated to advancing worldwide conservation of sharks through science, education, influence and action.

DJL will be uploading all shark, whaleshark and sting ray sightings on the Shark Trust website www.sharktrust.org.

We feel that submitting our sightings will provide useful data to researchers and conservationists working with sharks and rays around the world. Hopefully this will have a positive impact on the understanding of certain species and provide data to support management considerations to help ensure a sustainable future for sharks and rays.

DJL will be monitoring all sightings and letting you guys know when and where we spot these amazing underwater animals, so keep logged on to the DJL website and check out the sharktrust site for our up to the date sightings.

We are also proud to announce we will be hosting on a number of beach and underwater clean up events in the coming months, so keep logged on for the latest information on that.

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Looking forward to 2010 at Davy Jones Locker

By sea-dog, 26 December, 2009, No Comment

With Christmas been and gone for another year and new year fast approaching, everybody here at Davy Jones locker is looking forward to what 2010 is gonna bring. With lots of new plans for the shop next year, one of the main things we want to do is be the lead examples of eco-conservation on Koh Tao island. We are also expecting lots of fresh faced Dive Master Trainees, and new customers we can introduce to the wonderful world of scuba diving on our beautiful island of Koh Tao.
We will be planning lots of beach clean ups, reef monitoring and many other ways to preserve our home on Koh Tao. With the sea being good to us and giving us lots of sharks at chumpon pinnacle and great viz at dive sites like twins and white rock, we hope the new year will be as good to us.
So stay tuned to the website for all the new info about the shop and our new Davy Jones Locker eco-projects and don’t forget to log into our new blog feature on the website to ask any of our staff here at the shop any questions about the local sites, dive courses or any other info you need about Koh Tao.

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