Awesome diving - Mussandam

I had the privilege of diving in Mussandam, which is a small area north-east of the UAE, belonging to Oman. I drove up there with a colleague and met another bunch of colleagues to go diving. It's whale shark season but I wasn't expecting to see any. At the end of our first dive, none of the divers saw any sharks, but the snorkeller in the group came out of the water and said "I just saw a huge beast that was the size of a volkswagen with a small trail of fish following it, I freaked out and got out of the water!". All of us stared at her and couldn't believe our ears!

We quickly scanned the water and found the shark and got the boatman to drive us nearer and all of us just jumped into the water to swim with it. Above is a video I took of it, how awesome is the creature!

All of us were so excited, and were so ecstatic until 3 speedboats passed us a few hours later waving a fin and shouting "thank you very much!". I was going to cry when I saw that, and so were many of the other divers. We were so upset that they had cut off the fin of that same beautiful shark we were swimming with earlier in the day. However, when we went back to shore, we found out that it couldn't have been the whale shark as whale shark fins never sell in the markets and it's too difficult to catch.

While I was much relieved, I was still upset that a poor shark was dying and suffering in the water because it didn't have its fin. Please don't eat shark fins!