Shark Diving at the Bahamas
Introduction:
These unique shark trips are being run exclusively for shark enthusiasts and photographers. The emphasis will be
on getting quality in-water time and photo opportunities; space is therefore limited to a maximum of ten people.
This is a fantastic opportunity you will find nowhere else, Shark Diving International has teamed up with Jim Abernethy
and with his 25 years experience in diving with sharks, we can assure you the very best up close encounters.
Jim has been running these incredible trips for 5 years and the shark action has never been better!
We have numerous new locations, and we're seeing a lot of the same sharks at each site, along with many new sharks every day.
We are starting our very own identification catalog and look forward to sharing our encounters with
Price:
5 Day Trip $1995
9 Day Trip $3599
Season:
Year Round
We offer both five and nine day trips
Call for availability.
Schedule:
Departure from Palm Beach.
Click here for full itinerary.
Vessel:
"Shear Water"
The M/V Shear Water is a USCG and Bahamas inspected 65 ft. liveaboard boat that was custom designed and
built with you, the customer, in mind. It has all the comforts of home and more. With our professional captains
and crew, we feel we can give you the best vacation you can ask for and do it at the most reasonable price
available. With a group size of only ten passengers we can cater to your needs better than dive boats carrying
more passengers. We are very flexible in the type of scuba diving you might like to do and the places you want to go.
Expedition Brief:
Our primary goal is to interact with great hammerhead sharks. These spectacular animals are among the most impressive
yet rarely observed of oceanic predators. For many years, the great hammerhead has eluded underwater photographers.
In 2000, following a hunch, Jim set off on his first dedicated shark expedition to find and photograph the King Kong
of hammerheads, which can grow to a colossal 18 feet in length. The great hammerhead should not to be confused with
the smaller and more common scalloped hammerhead, which can be seen schooling in many locations around the world.
Encountering the great hammerhead with its spectacular angularity, its Orca-like dorsal fin, and its bristle-toothed
mouth is at the very pinnacle of wildlife adventure.
In addition to great hammerheads, we are also in search of the tiger shark. Although the tiger shark tends to be more
cautious than the great hammerhead, we regularly encounter tiger sharks from 6-18 feet in length. The giant of the tropical
shark world, this awesome predator will sometimes cruise past in bulky silhouette, approaching the baits with fearless
purpose, an exhilarating experience!
Our secret locations are often frequented by Caribbean reef sharks, bull sharks, lemon and nurse sharks while
occasionally being visited by something more exotic such as a dusky shark or its little cousin, the silky. At the
end of a good day, we have had as many as twenty sharks of as many as six different species.
To insure the best results we will be "chumming" the water with fish and fish parts. Consequently, there will be
food in the water at the same time as the divers. Please be aware that these are not "cage" dives, they are open
water experiences. We will have crew members in the water at all times to insure diver safety. A thorough briefing
will be given for each dive site that we visit and each type of shark that you will encounter. We do not move the
boat after each dive, unless we are not having much luck at one site, then we may decide to move, but we generally
stay in one location overnight and all day.
Shark diving is a potentially dangerous sport and since there can be strong currents, divers should be fairly experienced.
The depths that we anchor in are between 10 and 100 feet. For this reason we ask that all divers be Advanced Open Water
certified (or equivalent) and have deep and drift diving experience or have the basic Open Water certification with a
logbook showing the necessary experience. We will screen or question each potential guest as to their experience level.
Although we have had great success in the past, please understand that these are wild animals and there is no guarantee
that you will see any sharks. Each encounter is different and last as long as the sharks want. Weather is also an
uncontrollable force. There are no refunds due to bad weather. For this reason, we mostly run these charters for a
minimum of 9 days, 8 nights with 7 days of diving to insure plenty of diving days should we lose one or two due to
weather or "no play" days with sharks. We do not get "blown out" due to the weather much, as we have several locations
to work in that are pretty much protected from strong winds.
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