The Shark Dive at Nassau

Here's my account of the shark dive I did at Nassau, Bahamas with Dive Dive
Dive. It's one of the most exciting dives any certified scuba diver can do,
if daring enough. My video still freaks out my non-diving friends.

log_dog...

Clint do you really think it is a good idea to get sharks to associate

news...

I will be diving with Stuart Cove in december, thanks for the post!

Clint...

Have fun down there! Glad you appreciated the post.

Reef Fish...

There's not much difference between those, except the PRICE, as I
indicated in my 1993 post:

=====> " DDD" July 15, 1993
1. Why I chose to dive with DDD, and not Nassau Scuba Center, or
Stuart
Cove's Dive South Ocean, or some other dive operation in Nassau? The
reason was entirely economical -- no consideration was given to other
scuba divers' praise or gripe about the operation, because as a
seasoned
dive-bum, I can generally take care of myself, and not have to worry
about how good or bad the DMs are, so long as the dive operation has a
reasonable setup for diving, such as a decent dive boat, which I knew
DDD has because I dove with them once before.
=====> end excerpt from "DDD" 1993

If you do a groups advanced search with author "reef fish"
and keywards "Nassau shark dives", you'll find my postings since
1992 (in 98 threads) about ALL five different kinds of shark dives in
Nassau, with
Dive Dive Dive, Stuart Cove's, and other shops in Nassau.

was my post in January 1993 describing the different kinds of shark
dives in Nassau, including the Bull Shark Alley dive Clint wrote about.

The only minor faux pas (or peccadillo as James F. Kilpatrick would
say)
would be calling Nassau Shark dives "Caribbean shark dives", because
Nassau the the rest of the Bahamas are in the Atlantic Ocean, and not
the Caribbean Sea.

In fact I have written about some people can dive in the Caribbean but
NOT in the Bahamas because they are allergic to some of the floatsam
brought by the Gulf Stream.

Moreover, the salinity of the Atlantic around Nassau is LESS than that
of the Caribbean and I could tell the difference by the LEAD I needed
to dive in each. :-)

They are exciting "staged" shark dives -- exciting in their own way,
but
not as exciting as diving with un-chumed sharks (thicker than the
Nassau chumbed counterpart) in their natural environments, such as
in Coco's and some of the French Polynesian islands.

Jer...

Yeah, yeah, yeah, ffftt... Pavlov would be so proud.

divers with food ?

Clint...

I would like to respond to all the comments about my post. First of all, I
will not resort to throwing insults around but instead, I would like to
offer my apologies to anyone who is offended by my articles and posts. I
thought that is was perfectly acceptable to have a signature with a link to
a website. After all, one does not have to click on the link. As for
posting the entire articles, I could but I thought that due to space, posts
should be relatively short in nature and better with links to articles -
correct me if I'm wrong.

As for the shark dive, perhaps I'm not as experienced as some of you in
diving, especially those of you who have done it all. I'm not there yet but
hope to someday. I liked the shark dive as did the others in my group so it
was still darn exciting to me. As whether it's ethical, I don't know as I'm
not a marine biologist so I don't know if shark dives are doing any harm.
This would be the same as Stingray City wouldn't it?

As for my articles, they may not be the most exotic places - again, I
haven't traveled as far as other more experienced divers like some of you.
At least I'm trying and hopefully somebody out there may benefit from
reading about the 'mundane' places I've dived in. I thought that a
discussion group was a place where one can express opinions about diving and
my articles are certainly that. They are my opinion as one diver.

If the subject of my dive locations do not interest you, you don't have to
click on the link. As I dive in more locations, I'll have hopefully more
exotic places to write about.

Thank you to Dan for his support.

Dillon Pyron...

As long as the divers in question are all like Clint, I got no
problems.