Bull Sharks in Playa
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Some ops will take divers there to look for them but there are no guaranteed sightings. You need to talk to your dive op about possibilities. I've seen a couple - quite by accident - diving Tortugas on the mainland.
Sideways
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Jason at Fantasea Dive (Playa) did a great job of getting on the bulls for me. No chum! 
kentmorrdave
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I think it is worth the try. Nice sandy bottom to kneel on. We spent half the time messing with a lion fish while we waited on them to come in. They are very powerful looking. When you accend and they are circling under you it is awesome. Then, you see the beach and wonder if the folks swimming knew there were bull sharks 600 yards away if they would be in the water Our dive op did not chum either.
Our dive op did not chum either.
We're going to be on Cozumel Dec 5th-15th. I spoke with Alvaro from AlwaysDiving.com a couple days ago. We're planning to spend our last diving day on the mainland with him. Cenote 2-tank in the morning with a Bull Shark dive mid-afternoon. He seemed quite confident that the sharks would cooperate.
Yikes. I wonder how long I have to be diving before this sort of thing stops SCARING THE C$%P outta me.....
Mike
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Aw Chief, bull sharks are just big lovable puppies, but with 300 razor sharp teeth, 1500 lbs of biting force, 300-400 lbs of fast twitch muscle fibers, and a reputation for topping the list for top ten deadliest sharks in the ocean, other than that they are just like big lovable puppies, you're just being a woosie.
Tigerman
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Thats when you walk onto the beach, have a seat and ask a random person next to you "those bull sharks out there is pretty awsome, arent they?"I think it is worth the try. Nice sandy bottom to kneel on. We spent half the time messing with a lion fish while we waited on them to come in. They are very powerful looking. When you accend and they are circling under you it is awesome. Then, you see the beach and wonder if the folks swimming knew there were bull sharks 600 yards away if they would be in the water
stevep4444
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Whether the dive op you choose chums or not these dives in PDC are a death sentence for the sharks. There is an op that chums over there and thus trains the sharks to associate divers and food. The sharks come looking when divers appear and when the dive ops have trained enough sharks to gather the fisherman come in and take out most of them in one haul.Sometimes 15 or more at a time if I remember correctly. I thought this would be a great dive and did it last December. It was interesting but 3 days after I went out on the dive the sharks were mostly all taken out, totally legally ,by opportunistic fisherman. I will not do it again because I believe I contributed to the sharks demise.
Seems a reasonable position to take, if I ever get over worrying about the sharks contributing to my demise. I got plenty of shark adrenaline last trip when the cute nurse shark and I were on a collision course..... (in fairness, the nurse shark surprised me on a dive with a ripping current. Everything was fast....)
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