A group of divers from the company Manta Diving Lanzarote managed to capture a few days ago one of the many shark species that inhabit the waters of the Canary Islands. Specifically, it was sighted at Punta Tiñosa, in Puerto del Carmen, as they published on their Instagram profile.
According to the diving company in the publication itself, it would be an individual of silky shark, a very common species in the waters of the archipelago, dark gray in color and with the tips of the dorsal fins darker than the rest of the body.
This species of shark inhabits open seas and depths of up to 18 meters in tropical, subterranean, and subtropical areas of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans.
However, some comments on the publication have indicated that it could be a Galapagos shark, a species threatened by its low reproduction rate and which inhabits the Atlantic, the Pacific, east of Australia, in Hawaii and the Marshall Islands; and the Indian Ocean, mainly in Madagascar.
Furthermore, it is considered an aggressive species because it approaches divers too closely.
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