Key Highlights
- The whale shark that was spotted by scuba divers off Visakhapatnam coast.
- | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT For scuba instructors who spend much of the year exploring nearshore dive sites, encounters with large pelagic species are rare.
- Vysakh Sivarajan, an instructor with Scuba Schools International-certified centre Dive Adda, describes the moment as one that redefined his understanding of the local seascape.
- After eight years of diving across Indian waters, this was his first whale shark encounter.
- “You don’t expect to see an animal of that scale often,” he says.
