Image courtesy of Dive! Tutukaka. Images are from a video that can be found here: https://fb.watch/aD9Vg_Bmly/
spotted in open water returning from a dive trip
Scientific name: Rhincodon typus
Common name: Whale shark
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Order: Orectolobiformes
Nº: 1
http://wingedrunners.blogspot.com/2017/08/whale-shark-off-long-island.html?m=1
Seen while crossing the continental shelf break just north of Ryan Canyon. The fish was feeding on clouds of plankton and I managed some GoPro images. Also reported to whaleshark.org
2 adults, 2 juveniles
I took this photo of my sister and the whale shark while on a dive trip at the Red Sea in summer 2016.