Almost all of August in the Gulf Eylatskom were 4 whale sharks (Rhincodon typus), «Carisch levyatan» in Hebrew. Whale sharks - the largest of the now living fish. Despite the huge size of (official data: length - 20 m, weight - 20 tons) - this is not the machine for killing, a sweet, gentle giant, eating any sea change. Shark got its name not only because of the external similarities with whales (priplyuschennaya top of the head), but also due to nutritional characteristics. Like baleen whales, whale sharks are filter large volumes of water, plankton dobyvaya.
      Going with wide-open mouth, shark gaining full mouth water, then close your mouth and squeeze the water through the gill slits. All that is in the water, delayed gills and into the stomach. Hungry shark can repeat this procedure every 2-3 seconds. Fall from a huge shark, a small eyes, and she chooses not spoil, but simply reveals his mouth: horrible, so horrible. The main whale shark meat consists of small animals - crustaceans, small fish and squid. It eats relatively little, 100-200 kg per day.
      Sharks, podoshedshie to Eilat, was relatively small - their length, for visual assessment, ranging from 3 to 12 hours, they stood alone near the coast (see them from 50 to 100 meters from the shore at a depth of 6 to 20 m ). They came at different times, but usually went to shallow water from north to south. Then, it seems that sharks are deployed to the north, and then walked along the coast to the south.
      Sharks were not very contact, they are the parties to dive, but one of those daredevil able to snuggle up 6 meter beauty. Vadim Savchenko, eylatsky diving instructor, underwater photographer, video and a free artist, explains: «First I approached it, along stroked, given the time to get used to his hands, then took a woman - gently ... (with the paddle), she did not resist, but the rate of traffic increase ... probably from the excitement ... then, have done a walk on shark finning, I left her, goodbye, stroked along the thighs up to the tail. As proof now: reports of shots with a walk ... ».

That is to ensure that people do not annoy our guests, we do not have to inform the public about sharks before they disappeared. And they went out in late August, when the plankton in the Gulf has become much smaller.