Trip Report Fuvahmulah 1-5 March 2025

[Dan]

Since we can't read sharks' minds, all we can do is apply our most educated guesses, which is that the Maldives sharks aren't as curious with divers as the Bahamas Tigers because they're not being hand-fed

Having been to both places (Tiger Beach & Tiger Zoo), I can see the difference behavior of those Tiger Sharks in both places. That’s probably the reason why Nina’s hand got into Zesty’s mouth, it thought her hand was food.

 

[Dan]

@Dan when I went with Bahamas master to tiger beach, that was the same case. you were given a pole for if any sharks got too close, told to keep your head on a swivel so the sharks are always in front of you, and they enforced black wetsuits only covering the whole body along with boots/gloves/full hoods.

Hopefully people would learn from this accident to follow the rules and the operator to ban the rule violators from getting back into the water for not following the rules. May be that should be emphasized in the dive briefing, disobeying the rules, you are grounded, trip is over for you.