Terry Lilley, Critter of the Week
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I have scuba dove with all of the known shark species here in the Hawaiian Islands, and I find the sandbar shark the most mysterious. I went out on a boat out of Hale‘iwa, O‘ahu with shark expert Ocean Ramsey four miles straight out to sea on a clear sunny day. We passed a pod of dolphins along the way but other than that we stopped in the middle of nowhere in clear, blue water with the sea floor over 400 feet deep below us.

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