You can also count eight hammerheads in this one picture. This was a common site at Wolf and Darwin Islands. We saw many of these large and beautiful creatures on every dive at those remote islands.

The sharks were not so much schooling as congregating. Virtually all females, they come to these islands seeking the relief king angelfish and barberfish can offer them in removing parasites.

They are injured during mating, when the males must bite them to find the optimum position for the task. The wounds attract parasites which annoy the hosts. Then they come here for help.

Because sharks don't have swim bladders, they would slow as the angelfish and barberfish approached, seemingly slip into some kind of ecstatic trance, roll over and slowly sink until the almost touched the bottom.