the story of the whaleshark at chebeh
as told by eye witness...

descended to the reef and was moving around 15m, kinda docile and uninteresting dive, we were going to do and look at a remora disturb a pufferfish when suddenly the all familiar metal pointer banging on the tank sounded... we saw.. cobias! swam straight for them and suddenly, a silhouette appeared... WHALESHARK! dive frenzy mode, it was like space marines on stim packs, we all swam, alf gave chase, followed by jagr, i sort of idled and gave chase when i set my camera to video mode...

the whaleshark seemed to notice us.. it ascended.. 9m... my dive comp made all the noise, but all i could think of was getting close enough to film the shark... it swam.. we swam... then as we were about to give up on the chase.. it decided we wern't too ugly, and decided to turn around, since 50% of us had cameras.. the glam shark it was... swam back, did a few swim past poses... gave jagr a beady eyed 30cm away from your face swim past... tickled kint's undercarriage with it's tail.. and woosh, it disappeared into the blue...

we were excited.. we turned around and swam back to the drop off... and boy oh boy, we caught a glimpse of it for a second time..

dive trip $300
underwater camera $500
footage of whale shark priceless....