Shark Diving: Stuart Cove VS AquaCat

[CAPTAIN SINBAD]

Hello -

I will soon have the opportunity to do my first Bahamas dive trip and am looking forward to it. My primary interest is shark photography and it seems like there are two options. I can either do an extended land based dive trip with Stuart Cove or I can do AquaCat liveaboard which also claims to offer great shark diving. Can someone please help me decide?

Thanks so much -

Sinbad

 

[Capt Scotty]

You may see sharks on almost any dive on the reefs in the Bahamas. But I think the AC only does one "Shark Dive" per week where they are bating the water. Someone else may have more information about this than I do. Staurt's has reguar schedlued dives where they are feeding the sharks.

 

[paddler3d]

A few years ago I did the AquaCat. Very nice. I also did the shark dive.

Here is how they do it. I believe the reef was called 'Danger Reef' and was somewhere around 60fsw. The rules were you could watch the feed from where ever you wanted, just as long as you kept 10ft from the chumcicle. They take a 5 gallon bucket and it has a giant metal bolt through it that is looped on either end. Fish is then frozen around it. They attach a line with a float to one end and then attach the other end to a line which is anchored to the sea floor, which suspends that chumcicle around 30fsw and the feed is on!

The large females fed first followed by the smaller males. You could clearly see there was a pecking order. It was cool!

Some stayed on the bottom, some hovered.