{"id":382,"date":"2007-09-20T10:50:41","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T18:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/portfolio\/guadalupe-white-shark-trip-2007\/"},"modified":"2020-08-23T08:05:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T00:05:12","slug":"guadalupe-white-shark-trip-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/guadalupe-white-shark-trip-2007.html","title":{"rendered":"Guadalupe White Shark Trip 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just back from a quick trip to Guadalupe Island<\/a> to photograph great white sharks<\/a> (Carcharodon carcharias<\/em><\/a>). I had heard that this season has been a particularly good one for white sharks at Guadalupe, and I managed to get a few days off to get down there for a look on my favorite dive boat, the Horizon<\/a> out of San Diego. (Patric Douglas at Shark Diver<\/a> runs a series of trips each fall aboard the Horizon<\/a> to see white sharks at Guadalupe.) Guadalupe is my favorite island, I love the place. I think I have made 15 trips to the island now, most for diving but at least five for white shark photography. I am always looking for an excuse to visit Isla Guadalupe<\/em> as it never fails to offer up something extraordinary. This time was no exception. During three days at the island and about 18 hours in the cage, I saw probably 15 different white sharks ranging from about 8 feet to 13 feet or more in length, a mix of males and females, some I had seen and photographed before and some that were new to me and perhaps new to the white shark photo identification project. We’ll see on the latter once I submit the images to the researchers. We had only about one hour total where there were no sharks around the boat. We often had two at the boat, and on a few occasions had four within sight at once and six at the boat during a dive. There are a lot of white sharks at the north end of the island right now and from the sounds of it there have been for at least a month. It will take me a few weeks to sort through the 1700+ photos that I shot, select the keepers and get them processed for the web. Since I was using a new camera housing and lens, I was not entirely certain of how sharp the combo was so I pulled a few shots up on the computer between dives on the first day to check sharpness and exposure. Here is one:<\/p>\n

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A great white shark swims through the clear waters of Isla Guadalupe, far offshore of the Pacific Coast of Mexico’s Baja California. Guadalupe Island is host to a concentration of large great white sharks, which visit the island to feed on pinnipeds and use it as a staging area before journeying farther into the Pacific ocean.
\nImage ID: 19473<\/a>
\nSpecies: Great white shark<\/a>, Carcharodon carcharias<\/i><\/a>
\nLocation: Guadalupe Island (Isla Guadalupe)<\/a>, Baja California<\/a>, Mexico<\/a><\/p>\n

See more great white shark photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just back from a quick trip to Guadalupe Island to photograph great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias). I had heard that this season has been a particularly good one for white sharks at Guadalupe, and I managed to get a few days off to get down there for a look on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,168,89,194],"tags":[250,251,281],"class_list":{"0":"post-382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-great-white-shark","8":"category-guadalupe-island","9":"category-mexico","10":"category-sharks","11":"tag-great-white-shark","12":"tag-guadalupe-island","13":"tag-mexico"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceanlight.com\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}