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Bahamas Shark Diving Profile In the early to mid-seventies, ironically at the height of the popularity of the movie "Jaws," the Bahamas became known world-wide as pioneers in shark diving and shark feeding dives! With it's clear, pristine waters, and dive sites including great wall diving and blue holes, and abundance of reef sharks, the Bahamas have become known as one of the world's best places for divers to encounter sharks in their own natural environment. Sharks can be found in literally all waters around the islands, and a number of experienced dive operators can assist you in shark encounters. Wall Diving in the Bahamas Diving on the reefs and walls of the Bahamas is world-class diving, where the walls can drop anywhere from 60 to 100 feet down to the sandy bottom, or even a thousand feet or more! Corals, plants, and sponges populate these walls forming an incredible carpet of life, where a wild variety of marine life including reef sharks can commonly be seen cruising the reefs in search of their next meal! Bahamas Shark Diving - Feeding Dives You can find a variety of shark diving opportunities in the Bahamas, but witnessing a shark feeding frenzy may be one of the most unforgettable experiences you will ever have! In a typical shark-feeding setting, divers sit or kneel down on the sandy bottom, with their hands carefully tucked away and their backs to a reef or shallow wall, while the dive master drops a bait-ball or bucket of bait into the water nearby, simultaneously offering up tasty morsels to the Caribbean reefs sharks moving in and circling the area by the dozen. Divers are instructed to keep their hands tucked away while the dive master dons chain-mail gloves! Silky sharks are also known in the open waters around the Bahamas and divers may even be treated to the appearance of the occasional hammerhead! In terms of sheer numbers and likelihood of encountering large numbers of sharks, few places can rival the spectacular experiences offered by Bahamas shark diving.
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Shark Diving Australia
Australia has some of the most
diverse scuba diving destinations available anywhere in the world,
making this vast island nation undoubtedly unique. With it's
combination of the Great Barrier Reef and tropical marine life that it
supports in the north, along with the temperate diving zones and the
temperate marine life of the south, Australia offers some of the most
diverse scuba opportunities available anywhere. A visit with the
great white sharks near the Neptune islands of southern Australia may be
the pinnacle of a diver's career! California
In the past 20 years, researchers
made startling discoveries about California waters. One is that
they discovered that great white sharks were returning to the Farallon
Islands and Ano Nuevo Island, off San Francisco and Santa Cruz,
year after year, to make dinner out of the resident population of seals
there. And another was that the remote Isla de Guadalupe, 200
miles south of San Diego, was home to a population as well.
South Africa
Undoubtedly one of
the top shark diving regions of the world, South Africa offers
everything from shark diving with raggies to the ultimate experience of
cage diving with Great Whites! With an enormously long coastline,
South Africa offers an array of diving opportunities. With it's
warmer waters in the north, tropical and sub-tropical species inhabit
the reefs, and whale sharks, turtles, dolphin, and ragged-tooth sharks
(another name for what we call sand tigers in the U.S.) can be seen on
occasion in specific places. Temperate waters to the south provide
opportunities to dive in magnificent kelp forests, as well as the chance
to dive in a cage surrounded by great whites! |
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