Video: Tigersharks in Cocos Island

[Marcel Steuermann]

Hi Guys,

a friend of mine made this video showing the famous and much-talked-about tigersharks that visited Cocos Island last year. He workes as a diveguide on the Okeanos Aggressor, btw.

http://www.marinevideo.eu/mediadetails.php?key=25f9bb462fc2ea275ea6&title=Tigersharks+in+Cocos+Island

Hope you enjoy!

 

[matt215]

great video!! excellent quality (what kind of camera/housing do you use). i'll be there in august, and hope the tigers will be too!

 

[fairybasslet]

Totally awesome. I'm going there in July. I am stoked.

 

[Marcel Steuermann]

hello,
yes, just been there in April and it was really good diving. We had a school of baitballs on our last day. Incredible. I think Javi used one of the old sony handheld DV camcorders when shooting the video. Have to ask him again.

 

[BeckyKagan]

Beautifully done, please pass that along!

 

[Swiss Icebear]

Looks perfect. I am on the November 2010 cruise. Know that it long time to go, but the Maldives in January will be cool as well! Looking forward to a 50+ year in 2010.

 

[schnitz011]

Absolutely fantastic video! It's somewhat rare to see them in bunches; while there were you able to note (or have theories as to) the catalyst for their being in such close proximity to one another?

Thanks for sharing!

 

[Marcel Steuermann]

Well, I wasn´t onboard when the video was shot, when this amazing event took place at Manuelita. As far as I know, it wasn´t really clear why these tigers show up in such a great bunch, but as videographer and diveguide Javi told me, it didn´t last for a very long time and it was not repeated in such a way later on. So what to say about it? Probably the meeting happened simply by accident. But maybe something else was happening as well, later on or before, without human presence...who knows?

 

[Stichus III]

Awesome. Very cool.

 

[drrich2]

Very impressive. If I were in the water with that many large tiger sharks, I figure that lacking a flare I'd send up a turd (because I'd likely crap myself), hug the bottom in fear and notice I was at 500 PSI but be to afraid to head for the surface. They are beautiful and I realize fears of sharks are often badly overblown, but those are tiger sharks, and when I was a kid (I'm 40 now) they were said to be second only to Great Whites in attacking humans (still a small number, but even so...), so being in the water knowing at any moment one of them might decide on a taste test...

In other news, there was footage of a sea turtle, and fish kept, well, wiping themselves on it shell. Were they trying to knock off parasites, do you think?

Richard.