SEPTEMBER
Lots of shark action this month with the start of the Great White Shark season off Guadeloupe Island, Mexico, and also at the end of September at the Farallon Islands, off the coast of San Francisco. Many countries experience high numbers of whale encounters in September, including Canada and the South Pacific.
Mantas
Large numbers of Manta Rays (quite common in the Maldives) continue to be seen on the east side of the country's atolls, where they follow the currents created by the southwest monsoon.
Manta season also starts in Rangiroa, Tahiti.
The Ocean Sunfish (Mola Mola) season starts in Bali; while the Whale Shark season continues in the Indian Ocean country of the Seychelles.
The Great White Shark Season starts in Guadeloupe Island, Mexico, with cage diving from a liveaboard. The season off the coast of San Francisco (where a large population of great whites live) at the Farallon islands, (26 miles/50 kilometers) off in the cold Pacific Ocean.
Numerous locations are in full whale watching mode, including Humpback Whales along the east coast of Australia, and Southern Right Whales in South African and Australian bays continues.
Northern Right, Minke, Humpback and Fin whales on eastern Canada starts; (while the Blue Whales leave the Gulf of St Lawrence) and Killer Whales (Orcas) leave Canada's west coast.
Female Humpbacks and babies off of Tahiti continues, as well as off Tonga, and the Cook Islands; and Western Australia's Ningaloo Reef.
It's time for the hatching of Green Sea turtles hatch in Sipadan, Malaysia, and the end to egg laying of Leatherback, Green and Hawksbill turtles in Tobago, and Costa Rica, respectively.