Dolphins in Holbox whale-shark tour
Whale shark Adventure in Holbox Island / Tiburón Ballena en Isla Holbox
El tiburón ballena es considerado el pez más grande del planeta, algunos llegan a crecer más de 15 metros de largo y pesan hasta 13 toneladas; este gigante del océano se alimenta tan solo de plancton, y para ello lo filtran a través de su boca, donde retiene una amplia variedad de plancton y necton.
No te pierdas la oportunidad de nadar con el tiburón ballena en Isla Holbox...reserva tus boletos aquí :
Wild Dolphins in Holbox
Programa de Monitoreo de Mamíferos Marinos en Yum Balam (Manaholchi, UQROO, UNAM).
Whale Sharks Holbox Mexico | Dolphin Destiny Adventures
Swim with docile whale sharks in Holbox Mexico, resorts-fiji.net
WHALESHARK DISCOVERY HOLBOX ISLAND
WHALESHARK DISCOVERY at Holbox Island, Come and take a Dive with Earth's Biggest Fish ! Only with Holbox Adventure.
Swim & Snorkel with Whale Sharks at Isla Holbox | Mexico Ecotourism
A once-in-a-lifetime experience! Snorkel off the Yucatan Peninsula with the largest fish on the planet:
See our Mexico whale shark adventure in action with this footage from our trips! Watch guests snorkel within arms reach of these friendly, gentle giants who weigh in at 15-tons measure 40-feet-long! Find more info about this trip below.
• Few nature enthusiasts will ever have the chance to see, let alone snorkel with, whale sharks. With Nat Hab, swim alongside the world’s largest fish with expert guidance from our naturalist Expedition Leaders.
• Get to know tranquil Holbox Island, a traditional fishing community, where streets are made of white sand with virtually no cars
• Visit Isla de los Pájaros — 'Bird Island' — abounding with frigates, flamingos, pelicans, herons and egrets, and take a snorkeling adventure through the world's second-largest barrier reef
For a detailed itinerary, pricing info, and departure dates, visit
Incredible Dolphins school while snorkeling with Whale Shark at OceanTours Mexico Part II
While enjoying the Whale Shark Discovery Tour with Ocean Tours Mexico (close to HolBox island), we saw this great dolphins school.
Whale Shark Experience - Holbox Island
We went on a tour from Holbox Island to swim with the whale sharks. The tour guides estimated that there were around 300 sharks this season, and it sure looked like it. Unfortunately there were a lot of tour boats on site. This was one of the greatest experiences of our lives!
Incredible Dolphins school while snorkeling with Whale Shark at OceanTours Mexico
While enjoying the Whale Shark Discovery Tour with Ocean Tours Mexico (close to HolBox island), we saw this great dolphins school.
Shark Diver Magazine Expeditions : Holbox Island, Mexico
This year marks our 7th whale shark season in Mexico. Every year we seek out the largest migration of whale sharks in the world!
This is our annual trip out there to snorkel with whale sharks in the plankton rich waters that surround the Island. And each year the adventures get wilder, the sharks get bigger, and the experiences are beyond words. There is also an opportunity to swim with manta rays, schools of golden rays, often schooling in the thousands, out in the green water near Holbox Island.
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GAVIOTA - Holbox Whale SharkTour by VIP Holbox -
Enjoy an unforgettable day on the sea in Holbox. Highlight is snorkeling with the Whale Sharks in the aera of Holbox, México. Holbox is the best place in the world for WhaleShark spotting. Hundreds of Whalesharks gather here every year between May and September. You can also see Mantas and Dolphins. Professionalism and Safety. A once in a life time experience in Holbox. The World in its original version.
Swimming with Whale Sharks, Isla Holbox, Mexico 2018
Music by Kaleo - I Walk On Water
Snorkelling with a Whaleshark Isla Holbox Mexico
Snorkelling with a Whaleshark with Vip Holbox In the Caribbean Sea.
Whale sharks at Mexico's Holbox Island attract tourists
A group of whale sharks come together to feed on plankton and other tiny organisms near the tiny Mexican island of Holbox every year from July to September. Their popularity with tourists mean some hope to build big resorts, much like those found 100 miles south in Cancun.
Swimming with whale sharks off Holbox Island Mexico
Swimming with a 35' whaleshark off of the north east corner of the Yucatan Peninsula on June 28, 2008. We were staying on Cozumel and took the ferry across to Playa del Carmen at about 5am. From there we boarded a bus for the occasionally rough ride across the peninsula to Chiquila. From there we cross the bay by boat to Isla Holbox. After a delicious lunch (prepared by a young German ex-pat cook) we board another boat for the hour or so ride roughly in the direction of Cuba and considerably out of sight of land. Somehow the captain knew to stop and we took turns swimming with the whale sharks. We spent about 2-2 1/2 hours following the whale sharks around before turning back for Holbox. After another quick bite to eat, we headed back for Playa and the last ferry of the day back to Cozumel.
Whale Sharks and Giant Mantas off of Holbox Island, Mexico
Whale Sharks and Giant Mantas off of Holbox Island, Mexico
Holbox - Whale Shark Adventure 2016
I took this video off the coast of Holbox Island in Mexico.
Whale Sharks of Holbox | JONATHAN BIRD'S BLUE WORLD
Jonathan travels to Holbox, Mexico in search of the massive whale shark—the world's largest fish. Reaching 50 feet long, these animals grow larger than a school bus, but they are completely harmless since they eat only plankton and small fish. Jonathan gets up close and personal to a mouth the size of a small car in his investigation to discover why so many whale sharks visit Holbox every summer.
This is an HD upload of a previously posted Season 2 segment.
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Holbox is not your typical tourist destination. Until recently, this sleepy island wasn’t much more than a fishing village.
There are no paved roads, and everyone gets around in golf carts or other non-conventional transportation. There are almost no cars on the island.
The highway here is a stretch of beach where you can hit maybe 20 MPH if you have a fast cart. Downtown, this island has the charm of a place not yet discovered by throngs of tourists.
But everywhere there are signs. Something special has been discovered here. Offshore in the cool waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a giant lurks!
To find the whale sharks, I get up early to meet the boats to take me and the other intrepid snorkelers on the adventure of a lifetime.
These are converted fishing boats. Instead of depleting the ocean of fish, these fishermen are instead making their living taking tourists to swim with the fish. A really big fish.
Using a GPS device to help him find the shark hot spot, the captain takes us about an hour offshore.
Our guide Andreas stands in the bow, with a carefully trained eye on the horizon.
Soon, we pass a pod of dolphins.
We also see manta rays, and large schools of fish feeding in a frenzy.
Soon, he spots what we are looking for—the large fin of a whale shark sticking up out of the water.
As we pull the boat up alongside the shark, I can see its massive mouth open and funneling water in, like a gigantic storm drain. The shark is feeding. But what could it be eating? It’s more than 30 feet long. What could feed such an enormous animal?
To find out, I don my snorkel gear and hop over the side.
The whale shark passes right in front of me. The water is not very clear, and this is where I get my first clue what is going on here.
The sharks have come to this section of the ocean because it is filled with plankton! Whale sharks might be the biggest fish in the sea, but they eat only plankton and small fish.
The word plankton comes from a Greek word meaning drifter, so plankton are drifting organisms.
Early in the morning, when the water is calm, the plankton forms a thick layer near the surface.
He's just surface feeding. What the whale sharks do here is they swim across the surface of the water with their mouths open wide and all that plankton that's sitting right there at the surface gets funneled right into their mouths.
The enormous mouth swallows up huge quantities of water.
The water comes back out through the shark’s gills, but comb-like structures in the gills capture the plankton like an enormous spaghetti strainer. So the whale shark swimming through the water is like a big pool skimmer, filtering the plankton for breakfast. Each shark eats hundreds of pounds of food every hour! It turns out that eating plankton is very efficient for a large animal.
Conditions here around Holbox Island are perfect for plankton in the summer. The water is not as clear as other islands in the area, but these conditions attract a vast number of whale sharks, manta rays and fish—all animals that eat plankton.
The fish attract other predators like dolphins, birds and bigger fish. That’s why Holbox has always been a great fishing area for the locals.
I can’t believe how many sharks are around the boat. I can count as many as ten at a time. I have been to a lot of places around the world to swim with whale sharks, but never anyplace with this many!
Soon however, as the sun gets higher in the sky and the air gets warmer, wind picks up and waves start to form. The plankton layer dissipates, and the sharks dive down deep, out of sight.
Whale Sharks off Holbox, Mexico
Swimming with whale sharks off of Holbox, Mexico in July 2014.