Tiger shark experience

[scubaculture]

Went on a Tiger shark dive with African Watersports earlier this year. The dive takes place on a reef called Eel Skin near Aliwal Shoal. Great company and very professional. http://www.africanwatersports.co.za/

I am not sure how much I like the whole baiting aspect though. They do say that it mimics the natural feeding pattern as close as possible

Couple of pics, sorry about the quality, its taken off the digital video and I don't know how to get them any clearer.

What do you think caused this:

 

[Walter]

If you don't like baiting, stop supporting it.

 

[Bubble Junky]

What do you think caused this:

Mating scar, perhaps ?

 

[sasscuba]

Cool pics! Only seen one tiger shark, just finished a dive in Nassau and got on the boat and he came by under the boat.....wish we were in the water to get better look.

 

[drbill]

Nice pictures! Only tiger shark encounter I've had was with a giant 22 footer while I was kayaking the Sea of Cortez.

I extract tens of thousands of stills from my DV footage. To sharpen them up, I use the feature in Photoshop "filters/video/deinterlace" that eliminates one of the two fields (frames) in the interlaced video image. Then I use filters/sharpen/sharpen or filters/sharpen/sharpen edges.

 

[scubaculture]

Hey DrBill, you have been far to quiet on mydivinglife lately!

Thanks for the tips

 

[Cacia]

yea, most likely a love bite, from what I am told.

Wow. I like to dive with sharks, but here in Hawaii, we are afraid of the Tiger. Too many surfer stories. Definetly the "big man on campus"...

Here, chumming is even done by local spear-hunters to attract fish. The sportfishing boats all clean everything at the docks and toss it off.

 

[Bill Fisher]

AWESOME !

Great video stills!

I just had some Tiger shark encounters myself in Fiji.
They're the "Big man on campus" there too...

But I need to change that to "Big women"...
we only saw females.

It was fantastic!
Bill

 

[EricJ]

Saw this 18' tiger shark in Fiji.

 

[rickydazla]

Saw this 18' tiger shark in Fiji.

That's Scarface - it'd be dead if it wasn't for that shark feed. I am all for shark feeds if they are done properly.