Bjarnarhöfn Shark Museum holds a history of generations of shark fishing and processing. The visit includes shark tasting and a live presentation of this history and interesting facts about the Greenland shark. After the museum, be sure to visit the drying house where the shark has to hang to dry.

Beqa Lagoon in Fiji has many different shark species, but is really known for the Bull Sharks. These hugh bull sharks are hand-fed by the local Fijians. An impressive thing to see since see these supposedly super-aggressive sharks being gently hand-fed like puppy dogs. Other sharks you can see in Beqa Lagoon are tigers, hammerheads.

Dive with Caribbean Reef Sharks at Cara a Cara dive site in Roatan, Honduras. The dive site is named ‘Cara a Cara’ which in Spanish means ‘face to face’. The Caribbean reef shark (Carcharhinus perezi) is a species of requiem shark, family Carcharhinidae. It is found in the tropical waters of the western Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Brazil, an...

Few sharks can rival the beauty and classic shark "form" of the Galapagos Shark. Getting it's name from it's original discovery in waters off of the Galapagos Islands. Although they have been implicated in attacks on swimmers, like many sharks, these sharks are not normally dangerous to humans. The Galapagos shark is a species of requiem shark, family Carcharhinidae, ...

Entering the ocean in the presence of a Great White Shark may not be for everyone. On the other hand, there are those of you that dream of being able to observe a Great White in its natural habitat. Watching a Great White Shark tear into a Sea Lion or socializing with other sharks may be the adrenaline adventure you crave. It’s not only possible to do so but the...

Get “up close and personal” with Great White Sharks off the Farallon Islands. Located in the Pacific Ocean approximately 30 miles west of San Francisco, California, the Farallon Islands are one of the world’s best locations for viewing, photography and video ofGreat White Sharks. Being right off San Francisco,the Ultimate Shark Diving Experience... i...

One of the best places to dive with great whites is Australia’s Neptune Islands, which lie off the south of the country, 70 kilometres from Port Lincoln. The Islands' large headland supports a major New Zealand Fur Seal colony as well as the rarer and more endangered Australian Sea Lion. Both calving colony areas exist relatively West of the Southern island. In ...

Entering the ocean in the presence of a Great White Shark may not be for everyone. On the other hand, there are those of you that dream of being able to observe a Great White in its natural habitat. Watching a Great White Shark tear into a Sea Lion or socializing with other sharks may be the adrenaline adventure you crave. Typically the dives are made in cages and bre...

False Bay is a body of water defined by Cape Hangklip (Dutch/Afrikaans for "Hang(ing)-rock") and the Cape Peninsula in the extreme South-West of South Africa. Fishing is good in False Bay and at times there are large schools of snoek, an oily, barracuda-like fish that is much sought after locally. Angling from the rocky shores to either side of the bay is very popular...

Gansbaai ("bay of geese," sometimes referred to as Gans Bay) is a fishing village and popular tourist destination in the Overberg District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa. It is known for its dense population of Great White Sharks and as a whale-watching location. The main tourist attraction in Gansbaai since approximately 1995 has been cage diving with Great...

Get “up close and personal” with Great White Sharks off the Mexico island of Guadalupe. Located in the Pacific Ocean approximately 165 miles west of Ensenada, Mexico, Guadalupe Island is rapidly becoming the world’s best location for viewing, photography and video ofGreat White Sharks. It hosts one of the most prolific populations of White Sharks on ...

One of the great places to dive with hammerhead sharks is just off the beaches of the small island of Bimini in the Bahamas. Only 50 miles from Florida, Bimini is considered the great hammerhead capital of the world, where you can encounter up to a dozen different great hammerhead sharks. Bimini Biological Field Station (Shark Lab) is a world famous facility owned an...

Perhaps no creature in the ocean generates the level of simultaneous awe and curiosity as a Hammerhead Shark when seen in the wild. The nine known species of Hammerhead Sharks range from just under 1 meter (3 feet) to 6 meters (20 feet) in length. The thinking is that the “hammerhead” is an evolutionary result that provides a 360 degree vertical vision pla...

Costa Rica’s Cocos Island (Isla del Coco) is an uninhabited land mass located about 550 kilometers (340 miles) from the country’s Pacific Coast. The region has been preserved as a Marine National Park and has been named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Merging currents, deep water and plenty of nutrition makes the waters off Cocos Island attractive to all sor...

Among the myriad treasures found in the famous waters off the Galapagos Islands are schools (shoals) of Hammerhead Sharks. Mostly located near Wolf Island and Darwin Island the local population is dominated by the Scalloped Hammerhead species (Sphyrna lewini), so named because of the notch found on either side the extension that gives the curious looking shark its nam...