TIGER SHARK TRIP REPORT
October 2011
Northern Bahamas
This is our trip report from our October Tiger Beach trip. We are trying something different by using video blogs vs. photos to hopefully capture the excitement, magic and beauty of this amazing place...I hope you enjoy it.
DAY ONE - We are heading out to Tiger Beach, the world famous dive site in the Northern Bahamas for one of our annual trips out to swim with the Bahamian tiger sharks. This is the first time I am trying to share with you all what happens out there. I normally bring you guys the written stories, with a lot of images but this time I have the opportunity to try and share the excitement of Tiger Beach with video blogs...I am hoping to capture the mood and energy of this magical place. Today is arrival day and I thought I would share with you our home away from home, our dive vessel the Dolphin Dream...
DAY TWO of our Tiger Beach Adventure. We left West End on Grand Bahamas after clearing customs and headed out to a spot called Tiger Reef, which is a really sharky spot and is now dominated by the local reef shark population. Upon arrival we are greeted by around 40-50 reef sharks. No lemon sharks or tigers show up, but the dive is pretty intense. We finish the day with a night swim with dolphins. No tiger sharks for our first half day at sea, but a hell of a way to kick off the trip...
DAY THREE. We kicked off the morning with a fun dive with dolphins, something I know I said I would never do, but yet here I am in the water swimming with a small pod of dolphins and enjoying every second of it. Of course the reality is there are two types of animals in the oceans; Sharks and shark food! Once we left the dolphins we headed over to the legendary Tiger Beach dive site. It is an amazing place filled with dreams and stories....and my friends here is one more.
DAY 4. This is our third day of diving and our first full day attempt at attracting tigers. We chummed all night and woke up to beautiful morning and a few more lemon sharks. And attract them we did! A shark I have spent a lot of time interacting with over the past few seasons decided to pay us a visit. Hook is an amazing shark that is really well behaved and gave everybody an a great show...
DAY 5. Ok I am on fire to share this latest trip journal blog with you all. The last three days of our dive trip was pretty much the same, lots of time in the water with tigers and lemons. So instead of cutting together 3 videos that pretty much looked the same, I decided to lump our final three days of diving into one kick ass session. The hard part for me was choosing the clips that made it into this final cut. I had hours of footage to go through. In the end I decided on the few that I thought were the most fun. So without further adu, I give you guys my final video blog for our October 2011 tiger shark adventure...I hope you enjoy it!
Special thanks to Rodrigo Friscione and to all our guests who joined us out there for this incredible adventure...hope to see you all soon!
Un Abrazo!
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