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Great fit! Comfortable to wear.
Excellent!!!
The pattern looks just like a whale shark, they are comfortable (even under a dive skin and 5mm wetsuit) and dry quickly. Excellent shorts!
Beautiful, comfortable, and easy to wear. I definitely love the pockets!
I wore these for the first time today on a dive off the east coast of Florida - and I found my first sea goddess nudibranch. Clearly these shorts are magical!
Seriously - very comfortable board shorts with a waste chord that actually functions to keep them from falling down. The pocket location more toward the side than the front is genius. I know the company is using recycled products and doing good things toward ocean conservation, but I thnk they are still over priced. I would buy much more of their stuff if they would drop the price to be a bit more affordable. I’m unfortunately not wealthy enough to fill my closet with their stuff - although I would love to support their efforts at providing clothes made from recycled materials.
My son wanted the Whale Shark board shorts and rash guard for scuba diving. They look and fit amazing. He is 5’4”, 130 lbs and wears a men’s small in both the top and the shorts.
Characteristic spots and stripes adorn the largest fish in the sea forming an intricate pattern, like a warrior painted for battle. Scientists use these distinctive markings to identify individual whale sharks. Like a fingerprint, each is as unique and special as the last.
Main fabric: 88% Repreve® RPET (recycled polyester made from post-consumer plastic bottles), 12% spandex
Eyelets: brass
Tie: high tensile strength nylon paracord
Zipper: polyacetal resin (tough, high strength thermoplastic)
Button: polyacetal resin (tough, high strength thermoplastic)
Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are fish, not whales - allowing them to hold the esteemed title of "largest fish in the sea" (since sharks are fish too!). These charismatic creatures can reach lengths of 12 meters (40 feet) or more! Despite their large size, they feed on some of the smallest organisms in the sea, plankton. Hanging vertically in the water column they're able to suction feed and filter these tiny organisms through their gill rakers much like a giant vacuum cleaner pulls dust and dirt from a kitchen floor, filtering the fragments into its chamber within. Unfortunately, approximately 100 million sharks are killed every year by humans, through direct targeted fishing efforts as well as unintended bycatch from other fisheries. The whale shark is one species of shark that is particularly vulnerable to this commercial fishing due to their high value in international trade, in addition to their highly migratory nature and normally low abundance.
Whale sharks (Rhincodon typus) are fish, not whales - allowing them to hold the esteemed title of "largest fish in the sea" (since sharks are fish too!). These charismatic creatures can reach lengths of 12 meters (40 feet) or more! Despite their large size, they feed on some of the smallest organisms in the sea, plankton. Hanging vertically in the water column they're able to suction feed and filter these tiny organisms through their gill rakers much like a giant vacuum cleaner pulls dust and dirt from a kitchen floor, filtering the fragments into its chamber within. Unfortunately, approximately 100 million sharks are killed every year by humans, through direct targeted fishing efforts as well as unintended bycatch from other fisheries. The whale shark is one species of shark that is particularly vulnerable to this commercial fishing due to their high value in international trade, in addition to their highly migratory nature and normally low abundance.
Photo by Simon Pierce of The Marine Megafauna Foundation
Photo by The Madagascar Whale Shark Project
Research into the lives of these gentle giants can help us to manage their populations and keep these magnificent fish in the ocean where they belong. The Marine Megafauna Foundation is one group that is helping to shed light on the population structure, migratory patterns and the conservation requirements of these threatened sharks. Created in 2009, they aim to research, protect and conserve the large populations of marine megafauna (large marine species) found along the Mozambican coastline. Almost all whale sharks encountered by divers are juveniles and most are males. Where the school-bus-sized mature sharks swim, what they eat and where the females give birth has long been a mystery, however their team is now very close to making these discoveries. 10% of profits from your purchase will go to the Marine Megafauna Foundation for satellite tags that are needed to track the movements of these large female whale sharks.
Great fit! Comfortable to wear.
Excellent!!!
The pattern looks just like a whale shark, they are comfortable (even under a dive skin and 5mm wetsuit) and dry quickly. Excellent shorts!
Beautiful, comfortable, and easy to wear. I definitely love the pockets!
I wore these for the first time today on a dive off the east coast of Florida - and I found my first sea goddess nudibranch. Clearly these shorts are magical!
Seriously - very comfortable board shorts with a waste chord that actually functions to keep them from falling down. The pocket location more toward the side than the front is genius. I know the company is using recycled products and doing good things toward ocean conservation, but I thnk they are still over priced. I would buy much more of their stuff if they would drop the price to be a bit more affordable. I’m unfortunately not wealthy enough to fill my closet with their stuff - although I would love to support their efforts at providing clothes made from recycled materials.
My son wanted the Whale Shark board shorts and rash guard for scuba diving. They look and fit amazing. He is 5’4”, 130 lbs and wears a men’s small in both the top and the shorts.
