Swimming Free

By Nirmal Ghosh Thailand Correspondent [email protected] Last Saturday morning I found myself balancing on the tailgate of a pickup truck loaded with some 30 live sharks in plastic bags. It was one of two trucks, transporting 60 young sharks in all. Dive instructor Jean Christophe Thomas and I sat in the back of one of them. One of my legs was down by a plastic bag bloated with water and oxygen. The black tipped shark in the bag swam furiously round and round, occasionally bumping into my leg. It was a 15 minute trip to the pier, but encountering unexpected traffic on the pier itself – one of the downsides of Pattaya – we placed upturned soft drink crates on the bags to prevent them from heating up in the sun. We transferred them as soon as possible to the covered deck of the boat. Soon we were off out to sea, eventually mooring near a reef some 26 kilometres off Pattaya, ...

Full article: http://blogs.straitstimes.com/2011/09/04/swimming-free/

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@gabriel_boi » 04 Oct '11, 7pm
Helping sharks to be free [link]
@Scubadviser » 14 Sep '11, 7am
RT @Dive_Tribe: Dive Tribe In Singapore Straits Saving Sharks ! [link]
@Dive_Tribe » 08 Sep '11, 10am
Dive Tribe In Singapore Straits Saving Sharks ! [link]
@alessbix » 06 Sep '11, 10pm
RT @supportourshark: Great blog & pictures of live sharks in plastic bags!!! Wow, take a look ~ NJ [link]
@JosepVrgs » 06 Sep '11, 1am
RT @ClaraBoxy: The "great shark release" helping to save 60 sharks from death. Swimming Free: [link] by @karmanomad #Thailand
@elehelp » 05 Sep '11, 11pm
@karmanomad has been to a shark release, good for the individuals: [link] Glad to see the #DrivingTheMarket issue mentioned.
@supportourshark » 05 Sep '11, 11pm
Great blog & pictures of live sharks in plastic bags!!! Wow, take a look ~ NJ [link]
@ClaraBoxy » 05 Sep '11, 11pm
The "great shark release" helping to save 60 sharks from death. Swimming Free: [link] by @karmanomad #Thailand
@karmanomad » 05 Sep '11, 3pm
@beenasarwar #Shark release went well, yes, all of them made it! - [link]
@mobrock » 05 Sep '11, 11am
RT @Mr_Spock: RT @SharkTrustUK: Swimming Free - [link]
@LouAnscomb » 05 Sep '11, 11am
Shark love @SharkTrustUK [link]
@SharkTrustUK » 05 Sep '11, 10am
Swimming Free - [link]
@KevinObee » 05 Sep '11, 6am
RT @RichardBarrow: Swimming Free: The ‘’great shark release’ off the coast of Pattaya (Straits Times Blogs) [link]
@PattayaParadise » 05 Sep '11, 12am
Pattaya Swimming Free: It was a 15 minute trip to the pier, but encountering unexpected traffic on the pier itse... [link]
@RichardBarrow » 04 Sep '11, 11pm
Swimming Free: The ‘’great shark release’ off the coast of Pattaya (Straits Times Blogs) [link]
@pattaya_info » 04 Sep '11, 11pm
Swimming Free - Straits Times (blog) [link]
@MKnCaid » 04 Sep '11, 10pm
Swimming Free: The owner of the boat, seafarer Robert Camp, tall, lean and sunburned, said that in his 10 years ... [link]
@sg_story » 10 Sep '11, 4pm
On helping to save 60 sharks from death [link]
@6LoveAndLust9 » 05 Sep '11, 12pm
RT @SharkTrustUK: Swimming Free - [link]

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