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@@freezewill I don't understand your question. "Store?" We dove with Carpe Diem Maldives Cruises.

Thanks, that answered my question 😂. I mean dive center.

@freezewill We did a 5 day liveaboard.

@Jgardonis Thank you for your comment! Non divers and divers who have yet to encounter Tigers so close just don't understand the potential dangers! Big Momma did sneak in and attacked a diver several years ago! It was recorded and posted on RUclips.

@@keepitsimple64 I've never encountered a tiger but I've seen and read enough things about them and sharks in general and it only seems sensible to have a means to defend yourself if worst case scenario happens. Like that video of the spear fisherman who was clearly getting full on attacked by a bull shark and he got a lot of insane comments for killing the shark when it was literally a couple feet away from turning him into a meal. Maybe you know about that video?

@Jgardonis Yes, I just saw the video. The bull shark attacked the diver, and there wasn't a fish on the end of his spear for the shark to steal as some do. I would have shot it too. It clearly was self defense! Non divers don't have a clue how dangerous a bull, a tiger... shark can be and yes, you need to defend yourself, for your life when attacked! I was surprised to read that 62 scuba divers have been attacked by sharks, of that 8 died.

Thank you! Dove there yet? I highly recommend it. Wear dark gear fins, too!

@davidbonnichsen2901 That's awesome! My dad, too, was a diver, but we didn't dive together. We snorkled a few times in Jamaica when I was 10yo. We even ran into a Portuguese Man of War and got stung. But, that is as far as it went in those days. I took up diving after they both died to help with the grief. I hope you have many more dives together!

Different barge. This one is off Clearwater.

Oh gosh, girl, you don't understand! Tiger sharks rank third just behind Great Whites and Bull sharks for bites and deadly attacks on humans. You don't pet sharks! For this dive with food, the Dive Guides set up a strong, safe boundary, a perimeter, around the divers stationed at a short wall. The sharks are curious, and they tested this boundary often during the dive. They are curious, maybe curious to see if you could be a meal. Tigers are big muscular sharks that demand our respect. Yes, they need a poke with the pole to keep them out of the diver safe zone. Years ago, Big Momma, the biggest Tiger here, saw a hole in the losely maintained perimeter and attacked a diver (with orange fins) from behind. She bit his head, riped his mask off, and torn his regulator hose. Everyone is down at 85 ft of water! Since then, the Dive Guides maintain a strong perimeter front, back, and sides, watching her, them, closely as she circles around from behind. You have probably watched Ocean Ramsey, a marine researcher who dives with Qieen Nikki, a Tiger shark she has known for many years. That's a way different setting. No food is involved in her dives. No, I don't think she "pets" the sharks either.

We saw the manta ray on our first few dives at Punta Carrión on Santa Cruz Island in the Galápagos Islands. We saw white tip sharks cruising the edge of the reef, played with sea lions, saw schools of Razor Surgeonfish grazing on algae, along with schools of King Angelfish waiting at the edge of the reef to help clean the parasites off the sharks. Also swam into a huge school of Pelican Barracudas, Sphyraena idiastes, 1000s of them, diving at Punta Carrion, off Santa Cruz Island.

In the shifted gulf stream, the Duane has now been impossible to dive due to the strong currents pulling the mooring buoys under. I'm a Coast Guard veteran and would love to dive the Duane! When we can't dive the Duane, we sprint over to the nearby Spiegel. At times, the Spiegel can have a ripping current that will make you feel like a flag slapping on the line. I haven't been on the Duane since 2021. Bummer!

Yes Sir! The stream giveth and taketh. It can make or break what you can go down on. My Eagle dive this past June, although I enjoyed it, my dive buddy and I decided against going back down for the second dive. Lo and behold the boat captain cranked up, detached, and actually made the call for the entire boat. It was a good call. Next time. Pick and choose what is safer and calmer and enjoy. Safe travels and diving.

You're welcome!

A friend of mine dove the Spiegel over the weekend, Dec 2023, and he saw a reef shark with six hooks! I wish the wrecks were considered a sanctuary like Molasses Reef. We all enjoy the wreck and the fish but you have to watch out for hanging monofilament line on the wrecks and the hooks when descending down the mooring line. There was a time when our dive boat couldn't get on a mooring line at the Duane because the people fishing wouldn't yield the mooring buoy to the dive boat which they should. I dove the Eagle this weekend and we didn't see much fish. We are just overfishing the ocean!

@@keepitsimple64 I agree. Same thing happened two weeks ago. Had to forego the Duane. Both buoys taken. Went to Spiegel instead. Did the Eagle two days later and there was no legal edible fish on the entire wreck. Three Goliaths. Fish are transient to a degree and could explain some of that. The Spiegel was loaded with snapper. Anyway safe travels and dives.

You're welcome! Did you hear her at the end? You have to hear it with good headphones.

​@@keepitsimple64 I watched it again, using ear pods, top volume but heard bubbles & breathing - was there something else to be heard? To be truthful, & I may be one of few, i prefer not to have music but to hear it as you might when underwater. I know the big tigers come close to spectators & need to be redirected, but it seems to be a lot of poking at them, esp without the curved end to it. It's very busy at this site from videos I've watched, often in a frenzy of too many sharks at once, also with hundreds of smaller colourful fish like a veil - the diver feeding them is very brave. Your video is one of the clearest I've seen, on others the sand seems stirred up & poorer visibility. Heart-pounding to watch, i can only imagine how it is actually being there! 😯 OK: Now on an explanation to someone you mention her growling? I'm definitely going to try to hear that!! I had no idea that they made ANY noise. Was that " Big Mama"? ( I only know "_Emma" by name & sight, elsewhere of course! 😄) 💦 I thought that was sound of divers, bubbles, a groaning sound? that's the shark?!!

@sherylbjerre9636 Check out video: With noise canceling headphones, you can hear a very deep, a very low guttural vocalization as she passes by in front and from behind. I don't think earbuds are good enough. It needs to be over the ear. No, Big Momna didn't show up on our Friday dives. I think the other female tiger with the remora. I think she was so happy to be the big star and get all the fish heads! Normally, when she's there, Big Momma with the school of yellow fish is the big star and is fed all the fish heads due to her domination. It's there in between the breathing and bubbles. In person, I not only heard it but felt it clearly, but her growls had vibration, which I was sensitive to. Other divers heard it too after I told them about it on our hour surface interval. ruclips.net/video/vSIhxa9Rqr0/видео.htmlsi=6jzNKhOnTCc4qpKW

Its ok, we all were safe! It was a fun dive!

Hi, we dove with the Dive Center at the Beqa Lagoon Resort on that island. As you can see, these are big tiger sharks who tried to get real close, too close to the divers during and after the feeding. A few made runs at us. I believe using the pointed end was appropriate. The curve end of the stick is for handling the stick. As you can see, in the beginning of the dive, Big Momma made a close run and bit the curvy end. The curvy end was not effective in keeping them away. No, they would try to touch near the eye, a sensitive part, with the pole or the nostril by hand to push them away from the divers. The DMs do care very much about the sharks, but our safety comes first! The sharks have a thin, tough membrane, known as the nictating membrane, that covers the eye and protects it from getting damaged, especially when the shark is feeding. They used that membrane to protect the eye when coming near divers and when the stick is used. They are not trying to hurt them. The DMs standing behind the divers using the poles to protect the divers and keep the sharks from getting too close during and after the feeding. After all, we are dealing with big sharks. Tiger sharks rank high on the list for biting people. The sharks tested the DMs by getting closer and closer. The DMs needed to set a strong boundry for diver safety, and that boundry was often tested. Big Momma has a history of going after divers. She once snuck in from behind and bit a diver wearing orange fins. That's why you shouldn't wear bright colors on shark feed dives. She bit him in the head and tore off his mask. You can find that video here on RUclips. I believe the protection they provided was appropriate.

@@keepitsimple64 Hello :) Thank you for your explanations. Your dive had effectively a lot more action than the ones I did at Tiger beach. We had only one little box with fish inside whereas you had many boxes. It is probably one of the factor. When the feeder went away with the box, the sharks kept their distances at 10m at least. The nictitating membrane is thin and their eyes would be harmed with the push of a stick. I can easily imagine that the DMs don't want to hurt the sharks and now I understand better that they had to protect you with more drastic measures. We could only wear black or blue and had to detached the cameras from us so that the shark doesn't pull us with the camera. I was effectively surprised to see so many DM's in the water! At Tiger beach we were 8 guests in the water forming a V with the feeder having the box at the tip of the V. We were on our knees and only one other DM was in the water. the topography is pretty different: You have only white sand on a flat area and the sharks come inside the V. I really saw how different each Tiger shark behave and the hierarchy between the shark species. Once we had 3 excited Tiger sharks and when the great hammerhead came in they calmed down. The first day we had reef sharks and when the bull sharks arrived they left. I suppose this is why you had less other species coming in. The Tiger shark is big but it first checks the food whereas the bulls attack without warning. It must be scary when a Tiger shark follows you after the feeding! How many times did you do the shark dive? I thought that I could do 2 days of 2 tanks :)

@sylvies6827 HI, I dove in the Bahamas, in Bimini, did the Hammerhead shark feed dive in the very same manner as you did with the Tigers. I did a video of our Hammerheads and Reef shark dives. Both are low risk. The Fiji Tiger shark feeding dives were much different as you can see. In Fiji, they do the AM Tiger feeding dives on M/W/Fs. It's a double dip. Depth 85 ft. I did it both on M & F. I just had to go again. Big Momma didn't show on Friday, but the other large female Tiger put on a good show! She was so happy to be the star that she made gutreal growl sounds, which you can hear on my video with a good set of headphones. Yes, she made audio sounds! I always knew where she was without even looking for her. I felt the sound vibration too in my body. It was an incredible experience! The resort was beautiful, and the people were amazing! I highly recommend staying and diving at the resort! They had a number of good reef and a few wreck dives, too.

@@Sylvie_in_the_Sea exactly what I thought too! Especially when you've seen tigers sharks in the Bahamas. However, this site seems far more populated that Tiger Beach, so much going on as it's reef vs sand, still i agree & commented too about using a curved ended stick which one diver had. It's a wonder it doesn't annoy a huge shark more than to be poked by 3 sticks at once.

​@sherylbjerre9636 I am surprised too that the sharks are not annoyed by the stick. Especially when you know that the woman who died in Cocos accidentally kicked the shark, and then it attacked her and her private dive guide. The dive guide was severely wounded.

Hi, I used a GoPro 11, 2k setting

Hi, I used a GoPro 11. I did work on the color. That tiger with the small yellow fish closely following is Big Momma, the dominant. There was another female with remora who was the star on my 2nd day dives when Big Momma didn't show up. There was another tiger, the smaller, a male.

Thank you! I'm diving with Jupiter in a few weeks too! 9/16 &17th. See you on the boat. Lots of Goliaths there now!

It will rust out quickly. Probably doesn't even know it's there.

I understand that chumming by a film crew there has led to Champion bodyboarder David Lilienfeld being killed by a great white shark in Kogel Bay near Cape Town. Studies indicate, however, that sharks involved with properly operated feeding dives do not alter their overall behavior in a way that significantly affects animal health and ecology. Furthermore, there is no evidence to support the premise that sharks generalize from these feeding dives to associate food with humans who are swimming or diving in other areas. Chumming in a confined area where people are in the water is obviously a bad idea. By definition, chumming attracts sharks that are motivated to feed, and bringing people and sharks into close proximity raises the risk that a bite or attack on a human will occur. Interesting article www.aaas.org/chumming-leading-more-shark-attacks

Thank you!

During the Goliath Grouper Aggregation, the bait fish are really waiting for dinner, for her to release her thousands of eggs. That is why they fearlessly swarm her. She can inhale some of them to feed herself.