A sucking sound off the starboard side, like water draining ... size of a whale shark can be intimidating, but their grace is pure beauty. To see a whale shark is one thing, but to swim next ...

A massive species of endangered shark ... swimming with their mouths open to collect food, and "active suction feeding," drawing water into their mouths and expelling it through their gills. Whale ...

A sperm whale ... shark risks. The largest toothed whale in the world, sperm whales are deep sea feeders and rarely spotted near shore. Authorities were alarmed to find the whale swimming ...

Hanifaru is one of the only places in the world where so many mantas and whale sharks aggregate in such unusually high numbers. Recent reviewers said it was a dream come true to swim with mantas ...

They use their gill rakers to sieve food particles out and swallow them while the water is expelled through their gills. A 6.2-metre-long whale shark swimming at around one metre per second would be ...