Oftentimes when traveling to unfamiliar locations, we employ the services of a local ‘fixer’, who knows the area, language, culture, and most importantly the rules and regulations concerning importing expensive camera equipment. This shoot is no different; neither Tom nor myself have been to Djibouti, so to ensure we would be able to enter the country with all our equipment we decided to pay for the services of a local fixer.
This month, after years of campaigning, it was announced in a speech by the Queen that the British government shall soon implement a Marine and Coastal Access Bill.
Extensive over-exploitation of marine stocks has resulted in dramatic declines of UK fish populations, in particular bluefin tuna, cod, haddock and mackerel, which in turn may cause unpredictable cascade effects through the marine ecosystem.
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The in California has received global attention over recent years for its series of captive great white sharks. There is strong controversy surrounding the captivity of such a large pelagic species, especially one listed as ‘vulnerable’ on the . Nonetheless, the sharks have attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors, and each has been successfully released and subsequently tracked, providing valuable information on their movements and behaviour.
Perhaps these white sharks may in fact be ambassadors for their species, bringing people face to face with ‘Jaws’ in a far more accessible manner than the cage diving industry, helping dispel their unwarranted shroud of fear?
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Djibouti is situated in the north east of Africa between Ethiopia and Somalia. The Gulf of Tadjoura at the southern entrance to the Red Sea is an inlet of the Indian Ocean caused by the fault line of the northerly end of the East African Rift Valley that transects Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya.
A few years back, reports from local ecotourism operators suggested that whale sharks occur during the months of October to February in the Arta Bay area, on the southern coast of the western end of the Gulf of Tadjoura.
There are a dozen or so locations in the world where you can reliably see whale sharks at given times of the year, but it’s only been in the past fifteen years or so that these places have been identified. Before then, sighting a whale shark was a rare event indeed, I believe the famous Jacques Cousteau only saw two whale sharks in his entire diving career.
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SHARK ANGELS
by Captain Paul Watson
SOSF chief photographer, Thomas Peschak takes us behind the scenes in the Maldives photographing manta rays. 
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