Shark feeding

Nurse sharks, black tips, bull sharks, tiger sharks, great hammerheads and Caribbean Reef Sharks all love the clear blue waters of The Bahamas. Particularly the coasts of those islands fringing the deep water of the Tongue of the Ocean, including New Providence, the Exuma Cays and the outer reefs of the Abacos. And, whilst it’s always a thrill to get a close encounter with one of them, in The Bahamas you can often meet up with thirty or forty on a single dive!

Thanks to the shark-feeds now regularly staged by many of the dive centres, sharks are drawn to dive sites all around the islands. So after listening carefully to instructions from your dive leader, you can watch in awe as these magnificent animals cut through the deep water beyond the reef walls and join the rush to grab a free meal of fish scraps, often disappearing as quickly as they came.  

As they prevent outbreaks of disease among other fish life, the presence of so many sharks is a good indicator of the high quality of diving in The Bahamas. But sharks are not the only locals you can bump into when you take to the water. With spinner, bridled, striped, spotted and the larger Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphin all indigenous to the region, and even rehabilitation centre at Sanctuary Bay on Grand Bahama, you can look forward experiences you’ll never forget.

Get fitted out with some snorkeling gear and you can swim with the resident pod of pan-tropical spotted dolphin living near Bimini, or the dolphins living in Fresh Creek, Andros. And if you head out to the Great Bahama Banks on a live-aboard dive boat, wild dolphin encounters are almost everyday occurrences.

Just go overboard and see what comes up.

See where to go diving by Island by clicking on the links below

Nassau
Grand Bahama Island
The Abacos
Bimini
Andros
Eleuthera/Harbour Island
San Salvador/Rum Cay