{"id":627335,"date":"2026-10-11T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T12:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/627335\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T12:50:08","slug":"incredible-footage-shows-thousands-of-sharks-swimming-like-a-mighty-river-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/627335\/","title":{"rendered":"Incredible footage shows thousands of sharks swimming \u201clike a mighty river\u201d in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A scuba diving centre in Japan has shared mesmerising footage of being entirely surrounded by hammerhead sharks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThousands of hammerhead sharks, like a mighty river, swim in front of you,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikomoto.com\/en\/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAabzceQ94u6_XFacsZb5eQPQuNhDa51AkEcKxesFY7Eq-7gwIITTsh2Q0C4_aem_cTjYco0tvAU_dA8m20TO8Q\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MikomotoHammers<\/a> on its\u00a0website.<\/p>\n<p>Sit back and relax and watch the calming hammerheads in this 30-minute documentary \/MikomotoHammers, Kirin Wild photography\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MikomotoHammers believes that Mikomoto Island, a small uninhabited island just 15-minutes by boat from the southernmost town on Japan\u2019s Izu Peninsula \u201cis one of the world&#8217;s most spectacular dive sites,\u201d thanks to the rich marine life (including all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/search?phrase=sharks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sharks<\/a>) that are attracted to the Kuroshio Current. Also known as the black current, this is the Pacific Ocean\u2019s\u00a0strongest current.<\/p>\n<p>Image and video credit: hammerhead sharks at Mikomoto Island, Japan\/MikomotoHammers (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikomoto.com\/en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.mikomoto.com\/en<\/a>)\/\u00a0Kirin Wild photography\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More wildlife stories from around the world<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A scuba diving centre in Japan has shared mesmerising footage of being entirely surrounded by hammerhead sharks.\u00a0 \u201cThousands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,139,69,147,406],"class_list":["post-627335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}