Oceanic white tip shark jumping out of water

[scubaozy]

Hi,

Last week I was on a liveaboard at Red Sea and during one of the many dives with oceanic white tip sharks, one of them rocketed to the surface from 12 meters verticaly with incredible speed and disappeared at the surface. Couple of seconds later it splashed back in.
I am wondering why is has done what it did. I have red that some sharks jump out of water to get rid of "hitch hikers". But as far as I read, only ones jumping out are Spinner, thresher and great white.
The shark in question was not a grown one (guesstimated 1.5 meters) and was swimming perfectly horizontal prior to this event and I have not noticed anything extraordinary at the surface to immediately attract the shark.
Anybody observed this behavior with Longimanus?

 

[InTheDrink]

We had this in July at Daedalus. No idea why it did it

 

[manni-yunk]

Your three listed, are cetainly not the only sharks that jump (breach) out of the water. I know several others. Mako's for one. Browns and duskys will jump in a feeding frenzy. Many sharks will jump.

 

[scubaozy]

Perhaps it was the same shark as I have seen it also at Daedalus .