Tiger Shark - Jupiter, FL 01/25/2014

[Murfdizzle21]

(PLEASE DO NOT TURN THIS INTO A FEEDING SHARKS ARGUMENT, THAT's NOT WHAT THIS THREAD IS ABOUT) - Went diving with Randy Jordan and Emerald Charters on Saturday January 25, 2014. Viz was terrible, about 20 feet, but we did see our first Tiger Shark, I'd say she was about 10 feet or so maybe bigger. Other divers have been seeing tiger sharks around lately. Video footage shot by my dive partner Cameron Nimmo, and we got the footage on the news last night. It was on Fox 29 news at 10 and WPTV channel 5 at 11, I believe it may have played this morning as well. Anyways here is a clip of the news, a little article on their website, and our full video from the full days dives. Thanks for watching.

FOX 29 NEWS:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...l_comments=11&ref=notif&notif_t=video_comment

WPTV News Channel 5:

http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/region...each/tiger-shark-spotted-off-juno-beach-video


Our video on youtube:

[video=youtube;QTBWYBLb2xg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTBWYBLb2xg[/video]

 

[Pearlman]

That big grouper fish seemed determined to gatecrash into the party... LOL

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[Mike]

Brave son-of-a-b hand feeding those guys!

 

[sportxlh]

Wow.... 20 feet of vis and a 10 foot Tiger shark: that would be a little freaky. I dove the next day and the north current washed away the muck: vis was 80 + on Center Street. we had several Lemon sharks check us out during the dive. Even saw one Lemon on Tunnels during the second dive. It was laying in the sand next to the reef either sleeping or at a cleaning station and moved off as we drifted towards it.

Thanks for the shots of the tiger: very cool.

 

[MrChen]

Nuts, no way I'd do that

 

[drrich2]

I wonder how common it is to see tiger sharks on Jupiter dives? Fed and unfed?

I keep telling myself I'd like to see a tiger shark on a dive...while I'm surrounded by people who look tastier than I do!

Richard.

 

[HalcyonDaze]

To my knowledge they're certainly not as common as the usual gamut of bulls, lemons, hammerheads etc. but definitely not super-rare. There have been a few sightings this month in the West Palm and Jupiter areas, and aside from the Emerald the two operators I'm aware of did not use bait. The closest I got in the area was on a Narcosis dive last spring when some of the guys off spearing cobia spotted a ten-footer hanging around Governor's Riverwalk. After hearing that I'd missed that (along with several bulls) I dropped some cluster F-bombs while switching my tank out. Not because I was freaked - I've only ever seen one underwater from a cage off Oahu and want a closer look!

 

[deeper thoughts]

I saw one on Looe Key around 10 years ago. Pretty scary

 

[drbill]

I was kayaking in the Sea of Cortez 30+ years ago in an 18 ft double kayak when a tiger shark surfaced, swam over and bumped our kayak. We estimated it to be 22 ft long. When we finally got back to shore hours later, the crews from the Mexican shrimp trawlers thought we were the bravest men in the Sea of Cortez having encountered "El Grande Tuburon" in "that little boat" and survived. It had previously taken several crewmen who slid off the slippery decks into the water according to them. There have only been two confirmed tiger shark sightings out here on Catalina that I'm aware of (thankfully).

 

[guyharrisonphoto]

Great, now the crazies make the local news, encouraging this foolishness. Just a matter of time . . . .