Sixgill Shark Sighting & Video – Alki Cove 2

Last night a few dive buddies and I went diving at Seacrest (Alki) Cove 2. The dive started as a ho-hum dive, not much to see and one of our buddies didn’t have enough weight so he turned back and the rest of us descended. It was relatively poor visibility for this time of year, mostly due to the harbor seals that were zooming around and stirring things up. At around 100fsw or so I turned around and was shocked to see a 14-foot Sixgill shark, about a dozen feet in front of me. I fumbled for my trusty Casio EX-Z1000 and flipped it into video mode to catch a few minutes of the prehistoric looking shark swimming slowly and gracefully before sinking down to the bottom – apparently strange behavior for a shark of this type.

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