Divers encounter rare whale shark off Florida coast.
Updated: Tuesday, 19 Feb 2013, 11:17 AM EST
Published : Tuesday, 19 Feb 2013, 11:17 AM EST
KANEOHE, Hawaii (KHNL) - About half a dozen sharks were swarming in Hawaii's Kaneohe Bay Sunday morning.
Long-time diver and Kaneohe resident, Dick Van Horn caught them splashing around on video, just 50 feet from shore. He said they were tiger sharks, about 6-8 feet long.
"You see a shark typically grab something and then wrench to get a chunk out and it looks like that's what he was doing," Van Horn said. "There was kind of a spot, a muddy spot that was kind of oily, it looked like. there was a sheen on the water. and they were kind of circling that and kind of attacking it."
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