{"id":429,"date":"2012-01-26T01:42:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T01:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetwindsurfholidays.com\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2016-05-20T12:28:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T12:28:36","slug":"shark-diving-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/shark-diving-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Shark Diving Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sharks can be experienced all over the world, whether you\u2019re on a Maldives Diving holiday<\/a>, snorkelling in South Africa or cage diving in the US. But, if you have particular goals in mind, you\u2019ll need to make sure that the location you\u2019re heading to is visited by the right type of sharks and that you\u2019re visiting in the best season. For example: you\u2019re unlikely to see great whites on a Maldives Diving trip<\/a> and you\u2019ll need to visit Australia<\/a> between May and October for the best chance of a sighting these giant predators.<\/p>\n

From bull sharks to basking sharks, swell sharks to saw sharks, we\u2019ve selected five of the best shark-diving spots in the world, picked-out for their incredible range of shark species and consistency of sightings\u2026<\/p>\n

Gansbaai, South Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n

Quite possibly the best place on the planet to see great whites, the action takes place in a narrow channel that runs between the penguin-populated islands of Dyer and Geyser Rock, 45 minutes from the village on Gansbaai. The ocean\u2019s biggest predators patrol this channel, also known as \u2018shark alley\u2019, feeding on a diet of penguins and seals, whilst divers watch from the safety of cages.<\/p>\n

Cocos Island, Costa Rica<\/strong><\/p>\n

The world\u2019s largest uninhabited island is located 300-miles off Costa Rica\u2019s Pacific coastline, and is where you\u2019ll find some of the biggest schools of hammerheads on Earth, alongside white-tips, bulls, silvertips, silkys and the occasional whale shark. Both cage and non-cage dives are common here.<\/p>\n

Nassau, Bahamas<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Swapping cages for chain mail, shark diving in Nassau involves an armoured instructor\/dive-master feeding swarms of black-tip or white-tip reef sharks, whilst other divers watch from a safe distance. If you prefer to spectate from the safety of a cage, then expect to be plunged in with more aggressive species, such as tiger sharks, hammerheads, and the occasional great white.<\/p>\n

Rhode Island, United States<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Atlantic\u2019s frigid waters may not offer the most inviting dive-site but Point Judith, three hours offshore of New England, is a global hub for hundreds of blue sharks, migrating to the South American coast. Cage-diving and chumming is the most common form of shark-diving here.<\/p>\n

Neptune Island, Australia<\/strong><\/p>\n

The waters around Adelaide offer some of Australia\u2019s best diving spots. Neptune Island is a favoured location, made famous when used as film location for the film \u2018Jaws\u2019. Feeding on seals and sea lions, great white sharks can be seen taking prey from the surface and then diving down into the cool, sheer drops that dominate the underwater topography here. Cage diving and liveaboard excursions are common, with May to October the best shark-spotting season.<\/p>\n

Tags: Red Sea Liveaboards<\/a>, Red Sea Live Aboards<\/a>, Maldives Liveaboards<\/a>, Maldives Live Aboards<\/a>, Red Sea Diving<\/a>, Maldives Diving<\/a>, Egypt Diving<\/a>, Egypt Dive<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sharks can be experienced all over the world, whether you\u2019re on a Maldives Diving holiday, snorkelling in South…","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[193,220,1],"tags":[51,52,53,54],"class_list":{"0":"post-429","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bahamas","8":"category-sharks","9":"category-uncategorized","10":"tag-best-shark-diving-destinations","11":"tag-shark-dives","12":"tag-shark-diving","13":"tag-shark-diving-holidays","14":"cs-entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.planetdiveholidays.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}