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  • Nº45 # Date: 2012-07-28 - 11:00
  • # Max Depth: 2m Duration: 75mins
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Whale Sharks feeding off the coast of Mexico with surprise of infant and adult manta rays

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  • Dive type : Snorkeling
  • Visibility: Good Water: Salt
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Rhincodon typus Smith, 1828 (Whale shark) These sharks are usually solitary, but loose groups of up to 100 individuals have been sighted, often when they are feeding . Whale sharks appear to be highly migratory , and have been tracked for thousands of kilometres ....
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Manta alfredi (Krefft, 1868) (Resident manta ray) This species is commonly sighted inshore, within a few kilometers of land; found around coral and rocky reefs as well as along productive coastlines with consistent upwelling, tropical island groups, atolls and bays .

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