Horn sharks + tope shark snorkel, plus some good California Sheephead fish drama
Horn shark, male - you can see his white-tipped claspers.
Reports lately have been touting sightings of multiple sevengill sharks... not only at the place I've seen them before (say, 40 feet down after a big kick-out to a distant buoy), but in the shallows.
If I hadn't seen video I might've questioned these stories... but the video evidence was too hard to ignore, so on Monday I gave it a shot after dropping the kids off at school. I didn't see any sevengills, but I did see a couple of horn sharks and a nice big tope shark, though that tope shark was in deeper water with lower visibility.
Tope or Soupfin shark in low viz
Note the fish drama: it took me awhile to work out what I had witnessed, but with time and research, I believe that the fish drama I captured was of two transitioning California Sheepheads that are transitioning from female to male. This occurs with every such fish around about age 7 or 8. See Courtship and Spawning Behavior in the California Sheephead,…
Reports lately have been touting sightings of multiple sevengill sharks... not only at the place I've seen them before (say, 40 feet down after a big kick-out to a distant buoy), but in the shallows.
If I hadn't seen video I might've questioned these stories... but the video evidence was too hard to ignore, so on Monday I gave it a shot after dropping the kids off at school. I didn't see any sevengills, but I did see a couple of horn sharks and a nice big tope shark, though that tope shark was in deeper water with lower visibility.
Tope or Soupfin shark in low viz
Note the fish drama: it took me awhile to work out what I had witnessed, but with time and research, I believe that the fish drama I captured was of two transitioning California Sheepheads that are transitioning from female to male. This occurs with every such fish around about age 7 or 8. See Courtship and Spawning Behavior in the California Sheephead,…
