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Marine Creature of the Month Famous Fish June Made on Canva Destiny the Whale Shark The votes are in! A landslide win for Destiny the whale shark! Kingdom: Animalia Class: Chondrichthyes Conservation Status: Endangered (EN) Picture from Scientific American WHAT IS DESTINY? Destiny is a whale shark. Whale sharks cause some confusion: are they a whale or shark? They are sharks with a whale's diet. Simple! Destiny belongs to the largest species of shark and one of three which do not adhere to a typical "shark diet". The other two are basking sharks and megamouth sharks, if you are interested. More on this later. They belong to the family carpet shark which included species such as wobbegongs, nurse sharks, and epaulette sharks. I could honestly get super distracted talking about all these sharks - but some were featured on Sharks @ 7 & 3/4 so go watch those videos! Whale sharks, on average, grow to be around 9.8m (32ft) but there has been a confirmed case of one bein...

For this video, I decided to do something a little bit different. I left my favourite shark experts a mission. My partner and I have an aquarium. It's a small affair with five fish and two shrimp inside. But my partner, being who he is, wants to make something a little more epic. So we are currently in the process of building an aquarium which will feature a land mass, a waterfall, a cave, some dinosaurs, and, of course, some sharks.  This is where the mission comes in. I want to know the sharks in my tank a little better. So their mission: Find out four facts about each shark and film their findings.  Here is what they got! I just want to point out, they researched and filmed everything. (And still did a better job than me, their sister with a media degree!) Do you know any facts about these four sharks? Share below!

In case you missed my Insta-spamming, this Sunday just gone was the Dive Show! It's something we'd had pencilled in the diary for a long time but never actually got round to organising, life am I right? But thankfully, a couple days before we were still able to get tickets and saw it as a sign! We had a look at the talks on the Sunday, as that was the day I had off, and were excited to see a talk on plastic pollution! So despite some last minute can I really be bothered? feelings, it was looking like it was worth attending after all. The original plan was to get most of our gear from the Dive Show - snag some deals as we were buying two lots of expensive equipment. Well, we didn't need to do that anymore which is why I was wondering if it was worth us going. Thankfully, Chris convinced me and I am very glad he did. Because I had a very good time. We got lots of information about holidays, saw some talks, and got sooooo much swag. It was tote bag heaven. The firs...