Diving With Sharks

[Blackcrusader]

From my experience, there's no universal standard of practice when doing feeding dives with sharks. I am skeptical of the "only wear black" rule, and I suspect that's a rule that the operator came up with out of an abundance of caution. I have always worn my brightly-colored fins.

I was in Maldives last month and every dive there were Tiger sharks around. Of course the feeding station as well. Guides and others did not wear full wetsuits, one guide uses strobes for shots, and many people wore bright colors.

This is how I dive.... never been an issue with the sharks. This photo take by my dive buddy I have been diving with for 10 years.

 

[scubaozy]

I was in Maldives last month and every dive there were Tiger sharks around. Of course the feeding station as well. Guides and others did not wear full wetsuits, one guide uses strobes for shots, and many people wore bright colors.

This is how I dive.... never been an issue with the sharks. This photo take by my dive buddy I have been diving with for 10 years.


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Where is your left leg?

 

[Blackcrusader]

Some shark species "size each other" to establish dominance and this is done by showing off their size horizontally. By establishing vertical position, your body language does not provoke or challenge, thus less chance of aggression. Whether you buy or not, message from your posture is, I am not challenging nor looking like your food.
Beside, on a vertical position, it is easier to do 180 deg turn to keep your eye on the shark.

Recommendations - SharkSchool™ | Interactive shark diving and education

There are things that should be done or avoided when being among sharks, likewise there are ways how to interfere when someone is in trouble in the vicinity of a shark. Recommendations are only as good as the respective tests and experiments have shown to be.

www.sharkschool.org

 

[Blackcrusader]

Where is your left leg?

Seems a Tiger Shark ate it. lol

In this video listen to the end. Other divers noted there were several Tiger sharks swimming around us.