https://www.scmp.com/rss/513395/feed Robyn Huang is a Canadian writer covering culture, gender issues, and mental health. Her work has also appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, VICE, and Al Jazeera, among others. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Swimmers move urgently through the warm, clear, turquoise waters. These are tourists on a mission – to photograph a whale shark, the world’s biggest fish. Surrounding the animal, they dive on top of one another, kicking each other’s fins. The creature ignores the frenzy and continues to cruise through the shallow reef waters, searching for plankton to draw into his wide mouth. Finally, it finds a drop-off, and dives into the mysterious deep ocean waters. The crowd disperses and each swimmer... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3189432/pure-chaos-how-whale-shark-tourism-maldives-out-control?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/3189432/pure-chaos-how-whale-shark-tourism-maldives-out-control?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Aug 2022 03:15:21 +0000