Diver 85:
Sounds like it would be good. Seems to me people in the U.S. looking for reliable regional shark diving have some options...
1.) East cost of Florida - Jupiter & the Keys - should see a few reef & nurse sharks, maybe something else.
2.) Jupiter, Fl - during the lemon shark migration.
3.) Jupiter, Fl - with Emerald Dive Charters, and I think at least one more op., who do shark feeding. Lemon, reef, maybe tiger &/or bull?
4.) Bahamas - either Stuart Cove's dedicated shark dive out of Nassau, or on a live-aboard trip such as Blackbeard's, AquaCat, etc... Mainly reef sharks?
5.) Tiger Beach, Bahamas - pricier, but scent drawn tiger shark encounters. Gotta be some excitement there!
6.) North Carolina Wreck Diving - sand tiger sharks, most any time. There's a breeding period when larger numbers congregate, but the weather is less reliable then, so I'm booked for an August trip to Morehead. From what I understand I should still see plenty of sharks over several dives, and hopefully get close and some snap shots of some.
7.) The Playa Del Carmen bull shark dive this thread is about.
8.) The Roatan dedicated shark dive you mentioned - mainly reef sharks?
9.) Turks & Caicos I hear is 'sharky.' And there are a couple of live-aboards, Explorer Ventures & Aggressor, that hit that region.
10.) Much like the Tiger Beach live-aboard trips, I hear there are trips seeking hammerhead sharks, but I don't know much about that.
11.) The Grand Daddy Bucket List Shark Trip in our region, the great white cage diving at Guadalupe, Mexico.
Of all that, I've seen reef & nurse sharks in Key Largo, reef, nurse & either a black tip or sandbar shark in Jupiter (not lemon shark migration time), & I'm booked for a Morehead, N.C. trip in August seeking sand tiger sharks. Lord willing & providing, I'd like to do a Turks & Caicos live-aboard next year. I hope to someday either do an Emerald Dive Charters trip, or Tiger Beach, or both, & spend some time with tiger sharks; just seems like something I ought to build up to.
Any major coastal U.S./Caribbean shark action I'm missing? (I didn't list the Galapagos, which is farther afield with more challenging diving, or Cocos Island or the Soccoros; depends on how wide you want to cast the net, I guess). I didn't list Utila or other whale shark destinations, because, well, they don't even look like sharks...
Richard.
