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One story filed under snorkelling on World Data Ocean. The newest of them: “Following Dolphins: Unidentified Sharks Observed in Raja Ampat”. Four small sharks shadowed a pod of dolphins through Raja Ampat's blue water, yet their dorsal fins carried no white edge. A Global Hub for Ocean Intelligence 4 World Data Ocean is a centralized digital platform where researchers, scientists, and ocean enthusiasts converge to… The list below is every snorkelling story on World Data Ocean, newest first.

Following Dolphins: Unidentified Sharks Observed in Raja Ampat
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Following Dolphins: Unidentified Sharks Observed in Raja Ampat

Four small sharks shadowed a pod of dolphins through Raja Ampat's blue water, yet their dorsal fins carried no white edge. The observer's first guess, grey reef sharks, now feels uncertain, and they are right to question it. Silky sharks are a plausible call, though juvenile scalloped hammerheads also fit the bill. Field identification rewards this kind of scrutiny, the difference between assumption and evidence.