Shark Dive Adventures

Shark Guy Joe Deppen has joined IA’s Adventure Team and will be leading IA’s Tiger Shark Adventure in the Bahamas on Saturday, February 26th.  Joe has a degree in Marine Biology and has been part of several shark research projects.  In his non-adventure life, Joe works for Aquarius, an underwater lab in Key Largo, Florida.  If you can’t make the February trip with Joe,  you can join him in the Bahamas for our April 2nd Tiger Beach trip.

Sharky Jill is heading off to Australia for an underwater film shoot, but she’ll be back and ready to lead a May 21st shark adventure.

That’s three dates when you can Dive Tiger Beach with Incredible Adventures.  Choose one, or dive all three.  For details, contact Sheri Lewis at 800-644-7382.

We’re pretty sure a certain young man will never forget the birthday gift he received this year.  He got to spend an incredible day with his dad diving with sharks at Tiger Beach.

According to IA Dive Instructor Jillian Morris, the day couldn’t have been more perfect.  She called from Grand Bahama to report she counted 15 lemon sharks and one very big tiger shark.

If you’d like to dive with sharks, our next trip is set for Saturday, February 26th.

Our next Tiger Shark Adventure in the Bahamas is set for Saturday, February 26th.  Our boat will depart from Old Bahama Bay Marina for Tiger Beach, the underwater playground of big tiger sharks, reef sharks and lemon sharks.  The cost to cage dive is $875 and topside viewers pay $375.  No dive experience is required.  The trips are led by Jillian Morris, a certified dive instructor and shark naturalist.

Old Bahama Bay Marina is located on the West End of Grand Bahama Island.  The nearest “big city” is Freeport.  Several major airlines fly into Freeport, or you can catch a daily cruise ship from Ft Lauderdale, Florida to Port Lucaya.

For more information, contact Incredible Adventures at 800-644-7382 or 941-346-2603.

If you want to dive with great white sharks in San Francisco this year, you better act quickly.  We still have a few cage dive spots and topside spots left for our Saturday, November 14th white shark expedition, but everything else for this season is sold out.

The cost to cage dive is $875 and topsiders pay $375 for a full day adventure at sea.  The Farallon Islands, located roughly 25 miles off the coast of San Francisco, are known to be one of the best places in the world to view large adult great whites.

If you can’t join us on the 14th, start thinking about next year.  Spots sell out quickly. We’re already taking bookings for 2011.

On October 12, our very own SharkyJill (Jillian Morris) was in the Bahamas coordinating an underwater film shoot for an international production company.  The conditions couldn’t have been better at Tiger Beach.  Jillian reported an incredible 25 lemon sharks and 2 tiger sharks.

She’ll be back in the Bahamas leading a Tiger Shark Adventure on Saturday, October 23rd.  There’s still room on the boat if you’d like to cage dive with some very big sharks.  For details, contact Sheri Lewis at 800-644-7382 or 941-346-2603.

Overall, it was a good weekend at the Farallones.  Two white sharks were sighted on Friday’s private charter and two more sightings were reported on Saturday’s shark trip.  Sunday’s customers were not as lucky.  No sharks were spotted and rough seas made several customers seasick.  On a positive note, there were lots of whales spotted near the boat!

There’s still time to dive with White Sharks in San Francisco…but not much. Our last scheduled dive is Sunday, November 14th and many dates are sold out.  If you’d like to experience the spooky excitement of the Farallones….the islands once known as “The Devil’s Teeth”, give us a call or send us an email.

In order to use seal decoys to attract white sharks, you must first obtain a permit from the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary.

Three very special seals are migrating from our Sarasota office to San Francisco, where they’ll board a boat for the Farallon Islands. They’ll be used to attract White Sharks near IA’s shark viewing boat and cage.

The seals were constructed with care by an elementary school art teacher with a knack for making just about anything.  The design is based on successful decoys used in other shark diving locations. In order to pose no harm to the sharks or environment, they’re constructed of soft fabric and foam.

San Francisco shark dive season begins Saturday, September 25th and continues through mid-November. For more information, contact Sheri Lewis at 941-346-2603.