Bahamas Sharks
Swim with nurse sharks at the compass cay marina on a bahamas day tour to the exumas.
Bahamas sharks. A lot of these involve chumming to attract sharks or direct feeding where dive guides wear a full body chainmail suit and hand feed the sharks or use a metal rod to spear the bait and feed the sharks from a safe distance. We still had three more stops on our excursion. Sharks in the bahamas are well protected.
You may hear that the bahamas is the shark capital of the world and if you think it s a marketing gimmick then think again. There are 40 species of sharks within the 243 000. One for lunch one for visiting another island inhabited by hundreds of iguanas and the last one for snorkeling at thunderball grotto where they shot two james bond films.
They can grow to a length of over 10 feet at full growth and live a course of 2 3 decades. The bahamas sharks at compass cay marina are especially harmless. Adult reef sharks can weigh a massive 300.
Swimming with sharks in the bahamas was a magical and unforgettable experience. It s the only country in the world to declare the entire marine habitat a shark sanctuary. Whilst in the most part harmless to humans these gracious marine animals have been acclimatised to visitors for many years and are known as pet sharks by the marina s owners.
Shark populations in this part of the caribbean are thriving and the bahamas offer some of the best shark dives in the world. The bahamas is among the most popular places where one can swim with sharks and watch them being fed. A woman mauled to death by sharks tried to swim away with one arm after her other was ripped off before her leg was torn away too.
Jordan lindsey 21 was snorkelling in the bahamas when sh. The area of tiger sand beach the habitat of the tiger shark and the waters of bimini island the place of the hammerhead shark. Jordan lindsay 21 of torrance california was attacked by three sharks while snorkeling near rose island on wednesday according to the royal bahamas police force.
Jordan lindsey 21 of torrance calif was snorkeling with her family during a vacation in the bahamas when she was attacked by three sharks wednesday the associated press reported. 8 year old boy bitten by shark off north carolina coast.
