It’s thousands of years old, as long as a football field, taller than the Great Sphinx of Giza and no-one knows how it ended up at the bottom of the sea - BBC Wildlife Magazine
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Off the coast of a Japanese island so far west that it’s actually closer to Taiwan, it’s possible to see hundreds of hammerhead sharks battling ripping currents around 35 metres deep. That is, if you’re a very experienced diver visiting between November and early May.
But not everyone comes for the scalloped hammerheads. Some divers visit this remote destination to swim through the inky blue waters past mysterious blocks of towering rock that look like they could have been plonked there by a giant playing with Lego.
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Off the coast of a Japanese island so far west that it’s actually closer to Taiwan, it’s possible to see hundreds of hammerhead sharks battling ripping currents around 35 metres deep. That is, if you’re a very experienced diver visiting between November and early May. But not everyone comes for the scalloped hammerheads. Some divers visit this remote destination to swim through the inky blue waters past mysterious blocks of towering rock that look like they could have been plonked there by a giant playing with Lego.
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