at 5:00pm-9:00pm the whale shark goes about 1,000 ft deep. but in the morning it spends its time in the shallow waters.
Just a short not to add that the Whale Shark (Rhincodon typus) is capable of diving to depths of at least 1,286 metres (4,219 ft, to use the above metric terminology). In Journal of Fish Biology, volume 74, February 2009.
100 meters
Sharks unlike whales breath through gills and do not have a blow hole scince they are adapted to go really deep down if a whale went really deep down it would not be able to come back up for air scince it would run out of time
Filter feeding whale sharks stay close to the surface, where their food is most abundant during daylight.
In the whale sharks family there are other whale sharks and other sharks
Most whale sharks, live in the deep ocean and feed on plankton. They live in the open ocean, so the large sharks will not be stranded in the shallows, and to avoid predators that live near the shore. Plankton can be found in the cold deep waters of the ocean, so that is where whale sharks tend to live.
Whale Sharks are sharks
They usually go in an abandon ship or a dark cave.
Whale sharks - like the majority of sharks - are cold blooded.
yes. Whale sharks are very rare.
No, Whale Sharks are docile filter-feeders.
Their predators are squids & sharks & other deep sea animals.
There are 100,000 to 200,000 whale sharks left