Diving with a whale shark. (Michael Aw/LPI) What do you do when you’re on the bottom rung of a boat ladder, still half in the water, and a metre-wide mouth is heading towards you – attached to a midnight-blue body some six metres long? I asked myself this as I stood captivated by the sight of a member of the biggest fish species on Earth cruising towards me. When he was just centimetres away, he calmly ducked, and a few seconds later his massive form disappeared [...]
