Blue Sharks

The blue shark is commonly encountered on our pelagic trips and may be seen together with the mako shark. Blue sharks are truly nomads of the open ocean and can be seen in virtually all the oceans of the world often traveling thousands of kilometers in search of favourable areas to feed and mate.

Fishing for sharks annually accounts for over 100 million sharks and blue shark mortality makes up about 40 million of this figure.

Most blue sharks are killed for shark fin soup and most of these sharks are brutally finned alive and then thrown back into the sea.

Blue sharks can grow up to 3.8 m in length and shark dissection has shown they can give birth to 135 young.

We would recommend anyone who wishes to dive with or photograph sharks for the first time in an open water environment to try to do so with a blue shark. Their inquisitive nature coupled with beautiful colour and velvety movement will get you yearning to see more of their brethren and be well and truly hooked on shark diving.