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Galapagos shark, the most recognizable whale shark is shown with its mouth
shark, the scalloped hammerhead, and the agape in feeding fashion, which makes it
most dangerous shark in Hawaii, the actually have the appearance of smiling.
awesome tiger shark. The tiger shark is Perhaps it is happy with being the largest
the most likely to ruin some snorkeler's or thing in the sea other than the great
surfers day as it is responsible for a whales. Other species shown on this card
several attacks each year. The odds are include the sleek and fast blue shark, the
something akin to getting struck by potentially dangerous oceanic white tip
lightning, but yes it does happen. shark, the world's fastest shark, the mako,
the beautiful thresher shark, the silky
Three species of rays gracefully glide
above the colorful Hawaiian reef on the shark, and Hawaii's rare visitor, the great
sharks and rays card. They are the huge white shark, which luckily prefers cooler
but harmless manta ray (one of Franko's waters. However, on Labor Day, 2003,
favorite night dives is the manta ray dive Franko was at Yokahama Bay (aka, Pray
on the Kona Coast), the elegant white for Sex Beach) on Oahu when a great
spotted eagle ray, and the bottom- white shark decided to check out the local
dwelling broad stingray. A flurry of skin divers, perhaps thanks to the
delicious bloody odor of their spear
Technicolor reef life is depicted on the
bottom below the sharks and rays. The flip catches. Yes, they got the heck out of the
side of the Hawaiian Sharks & Rays card water, although it can be argued that the
shows the offshore species. These include great white shark was not hunting,
the tiniest and the largest sharks. The tiny otherwise they wouldn't have even seen
one is the cookie cutter shark, which has a him coming! Yikes! Franko called the
feeding method that has it chomping non- Honolulu Ocean Safety people, but guess
lethal, but scarring 5" (12.7cm) round what...they did not believe my story that a
divots right out of the side of pelagic fish, great white shark was there! The local life
and even dolphins. The largest shark is the guard wouldn't believe it either. The card,
whale shark. It is shown to scale next to a which measure 6" x 9" (15.24cm x
woman diver. People occasionally get 22.9cm) is printed on plastic and then
lucky and have a close encounter with one laminated so that it is stiff, shiny and
of these gentle giants on the outside of waterproof. It has a hole for a lanyard, so
Molokini Island by Maui or near Lehua you can actually take it diving or
Rock at the northern tip of Niihau, 17 snorkeling. Card makes a great gift idea.
miles (27.36km) from Kauai. Since all of
the other sharks appear so business like,
with their natural menacing look, this
