On our safety stop, an adult oceanic whitetip shark came out of the blue and started circling us. I've dived with these sharks a number of times in the past, and have never seen one so interested in a diver before. The dive leader (Farag) dived at Elphinstone over 200 times and said one had never been so close, he was gently trying to fin the nose of the shark to get it to go away, but it kept on pursuing him.
Eventually the shark swam off and we made a sharp exit to the Zodiac! Luckily no-one was bitten... A dive site (brothers) in egypt has recently been closed as there have been four attacks in three months by these oceanic whitetip sharks.
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Eventually the shark swam off and we made a sharp exit to the Zodiac! Luckily no-one was bitten... A dive site (brothers) in egypt has recently been closed as there have been four attacks in three months by these oceanic whitetip sharks.
Video link here:-