Oceanic Whitetips Cat Island, Bahamas Call it a crash course in meditation: Moments before you throw yourself overboard where oceanic whitetip sharks carve slow circles around the boat, you'd better calm down. Slow the heart rate. Because if you enter their world even slightly nervous, they will know. Like all sharks, their bag of tricks is splitting at the seams.

Jan 12, 2016. But the biggest blow to Japan's unagi industry may be yet to come: The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species may place restrictions on the buying and selling of Japanese eel when it meets later this year. In the meantime, some in Japan believe that tighter regulations on the practice of.

Unlike those spoiled on the reefs, these sharks learned to survive in the desert that is the open sea. For starters, they hunt cooperatively. Don't fear the two in sight - it's the one edging up behind that tests your mettle. Luckily the tour operators running boats out of Cat Island know how to read this predator.

Divers stay in the water only when the sharks' pectoral fins are at their sides - a signal of anything-but-attack mode. This is as safe an environment as it gets to interact with a shark that is watching you, teasing out your next reaction. The longer your time in the water, the more you must return to your breathing to stay centered — because here, unlike the jeep-based African safaris, the show is not happening at a distance. You're part of the act. - Brooke Morton Get Here. Synergy Keygen Generator.

Caribbean Reef Sharks Grand Bahama Island, Bahamas Powerful and sleek, Caribbean reef sharks are impressive to encounter, but rarely do they stay with you during a dive. While frequently observed in the waters from Florida to Brazil, it's the shark-feeding dive off Grand Bahama Island that offers a distinctive, up-close interaction. While kneeling in 40 feet of crystal-clear water, a shark feeder approaches with a dozen or more reef sharks in tow. Swimming slow circles in and around the divers, the sharks are fed by hand, one fish at a time, only a few feet away. If divers are lucky, they'll also witness a shark being put into a state of tonic immobility. It's a peaceful and fascinating (not to mention exhilarating!) experience that will give you a new love of the ocean’s top predator.

- Matthew Meier Contact. Killer Whales Stromsholmen, Norway Watching killer whales as they feed on schooling herring can be a frustrating affair, but this is what killer whales do in winter. If you want to watch killer whales in their natural environment, you'll need to face your fears first: Preparing to enter the water from the bow of the aluminum boat, you're alone with your thoughts.

The signal arrives and you slip into the cool water, hearing their squeaks and whistles immediately. You see one swim below you in the gloom, and you free-dive down a few feet to get a better look. With a drysuit it’s difficult, but the rewards are immense: a whale slows down, rotates on its axis to better observe you, and then leaves with the flick of its tail. After all, the whales are there to feed, and you're not the world's biggest herring. - Franco Banfi Get Here.

Blue Sharks Southern California Fall in with a bucket of chum in virtually any temperate ocean, and you'll likely attract a few 'blue dogs,' but it’s tough to beat the cageless encounters you'll have in Southern California. Perhaps it's the quality of the light in sunny SoCal that makes the blue sharks' flanks glow with such brilliance, or it might be the outstanding visibility that makes them appear more electric blue than their cousins overseas. Either way, you'll love the experience of watching a shimmering blue shark snake its way toward you up the chum slick. Remember to hold your ground but not your breath as the slow-moving ocean wanderer comes in for a close pass, its midnight-blue eye fixed firmly on your gaze as it slowly swims past. - Andy Murch Get Here. Humpback Whales Silver Bank, Dominican Republic Few of us have ever been in the water with a colossal submarine, but on the off chance you have, then you might have an inkling of what it’s like to gaze at 40 feet of marine mammal.

There are few destinations where you can experience in-water encounters with humpback whales, but the Dominican Republic's Silver Bank may seasonally aggregate more of these cetaceans than anywhere else. In association with scientists and operators, the DR has developed an effectively managed program allowing just a few licensed operators to bring snorkelers to view Atlantic humpbacks on their native Caribbean breeding and calving grounds, from late January through early April. Being in the water with one of the world's largest and most mysterious species, intimately observing their behaviors and listening to their eerie songs, can be described only as positively life-altering. - Ethan Daniels Get Here. Beluga Whales White Sea, Russia One of the world’s rarest encounters, you’ve gotta have thick skin (or a great drysuit) to dive with beluga whales.