Читать книгу Killers in the Water - The New Super Sharks Terrorising The World's Oceans - Sue Blackhall - Страница 9

The Oceanic Whitetip and Mako sharks that terrorised swimmers and snorkellers are just two of the 30 or so different shark species in the Red Sea. Their presence so close to shore was certainly unique for most of sea’s sharks are rarely seen, although the Oceanic Whitetip is the most likely to be spotted, some preferring to circle waters so deep that even divers will never come across them – hence the investigation into the extreme circumstances which drew the Oceanic Whitetip and Mako into shallow waters and contact with humans. Listed below are just some of the Red Sea sharks:

 Grey Reef shark

 Scalloped Hammerhead

 Blacktip

 Dusky shark

 Spinner shark

 Silky shark

 Tawny Nurse shark

 Pelagic Thresher

 Grey Nurse shark

 Great White

 Sandbar shark

 Tiger shark

 Oceanic Whitetip

 Shortfin Mako

 Blue shark

 Whale shark

 Great Hammerhead

 Spiny Dogfish

 Whitetip Reef shark

 Bramble shark

 Zebra shark

 Coral Catshark

 Whale shark

 Hooktooth shark

 Sliteye shark

 Spottail shark

 Snaggletooth shark

 Bull shark

 Bignose shark

 Bigeye Houndshark

 Arabian Smoothhound

 Sicklefin Weasel.