Doug Perrine / Sandbar shark {Carcharhinus plumbeus}, Pacific Ocean.

Doug Perrine / Sandbar shark {Carcharhinus plumbeus}, Pacific Ocean.

Flip Nicklin / Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) underwater portrait, bottom-dwelling coastal species, worldwide distribution

Doug Perrine / Sandbar shark abstract {Carcharhinus plumbeus} Hawaii (Non-ex).

David Fleetham / Although rarely seen, the Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) is likely the most numerous of all shark species found in Hawaii.

Doug Perrine / Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) 2.08m specimen, lower jaw with teeth on display at Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, Principality of Monaco (digitally modified)

Doug Perrine / Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) 2.08m specimen, upper jaw with teeth on display at Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, Principality of Monaco (digitally modified)

Jeff Rotman / Sand Tiger (Carcharias taurus) and Sandbar (Carcharhinus plumbeus) sharks, caught for fins, Exmouth, Australia, Indian Ocean

Doug Perrine / Dead Sandbar shark hanging under fishing boat {Carcharhinus plumbeus} killed by longline fishing, Philippines

Flip Nicklin / Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) underwater portrait, bottom-dwelling coastal species, worldwide distribution

Flip Nicklin / Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) underwater portrait, bottom-dwelling coastal species, worldwide distribution

Flip Nicklin / Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) underwater portrait, bottom-dwelling coastal species, worldwide distribution

Jeff Rotman / Sandbar shark {Carcharhinus plumbeus} caught on long-line fishing, Mediterranean, Israel

Jeff Rotman / Sandbar shark caught on long line. Mediterranean. Israel Model released.

Jeff Rotman / Diver next to Sandbar shark caught on fishline (Carcharhinus plumbeus) Mediterranean long line fishing Model released.

David Fleetham / Young boy meeting Brown stingray (Dasyatis latus) and Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) through the glass at Maui Ocean Centre, Hawaii. Model released.

David Fleetham / Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), displaying aggressive posture and behaviour, Hawaii.

David Fleetham / Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), being revised by shark researcher / diver after examining it, Hawaii.

David Fleetham / Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), on seabed, Hawaii.

David Fleetham / Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), on seabed, Hawaii.

David Fleetham / Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), at surface, Hawaii.

David Fleetham / Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), on seabed, Hawaii.

Flip Nicklin / Sandbar Shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus) underwater portrait, bottom-dwelling coastal species, worldwide distribution

Doug Perrine / Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), swimming into a school of Bigeye scad (Selar crumenophthalmus), Keauhou Bay, South Kona, Hawaii.

Doug Perrine / Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), swimming into a school of Bigeye scad (Selar crumenophthalmus), Keauhou Bay, South Kona, Hawaii.

Doug Perrine / Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), swimming through a school of Bigeye scad (Selar crumenophthalmus), Keauhou Bay, South Kona, Hawaii.

Doug Perrine / Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), swimming around a school of Bigeye scad (Selar crumenophthalmus), Keauhou Bay, South Kona, Hawaii.

Doug Perrine / Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), swimming toward a school of Bigeye scad (Selar crumenophthalmus). A cloud of black durgon triggerfish (Melichthys niger) follow to feed on their faeces Keauhou B...

Doug Perrine / Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), swimming through a school of Bigeye scad (Selar crumenophthalmus), Keauhou Bay, South Kona, Hawaii.

Doug Perrine / Sandbar shark, (Carcharhinus plumbeus) with shark hook in corner of mouth and parasitic copepods scattered around jaws, Honokohau, North Kona, Hawaii

Doug Perrine / Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), with parasitic copepods on snout and behind eye, Honokohau, North Kona, Hawaii

Doug Perrine / Sandbar shark (Carcharhinus plumbeus), and bluestripe snapper or taape, Lutjanus kasmira, Honokohau, North Kona, Hawaii