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The next big thing
It’s set to be the latest world hotspot, as great hammerhead sharks stop off in shallow waters of the Bahamas in the early part of each year. How often do you find such sharks hanging around with divers – for five hours at a time?
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Merciful release
Sometimes it seems impossible to right the wrongs humans do to ocean-dwellers, but occasionally divers are able to lend a helping hand, as divemaster DAVID VALENCIA reports
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This summer’s big experience
As spring arrives, some of the biggest, most mysterious giants of the marine world flock to Britain’s west coast. Want to get in the water with them this year? Let PAUL OLDING explain how, with images by DAN BURTON
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Shark interactions: top 20 hotspots
Shark interactions: top 20 hotspots
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My shark dive collection
Ever hungry for new underwater experiences, LISA COLLINS has been lucky enough to make acquaintance with Caribbean reef, tiger, bull and great white sharks among others. Read on – and then consider which of DIVER’s Top Shark-Diving Experiences might suit you
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Not heaven, not freedom
Diving with oceanic whitetips in the southern Egyptian Red Sea, JOHN BANTIN saw something he would rather not have seen. So whatever happened to the dive industry protecting its precious assets?
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Wonders of life – Neptune's big fish
Professor Brian Cox, the smiling face of science on TV, has been getting among the denizens of the deep for his latest series. Would he still be smiling as the great white sharks closed in? Producer PAUL OLDING has the story
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Bleeding nuisance!
It all started with a taxi and a sneeze. Cocos is one of the world’s great dive destinations, but as the sharks gathered, WILL CLARK’s trip to the eastern Pacific was set to be a study in frustration
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Hanging with the Sevengills
We think of great whites, tigers, raggies and many other sharks in connection with South Africa, but Sevengills are something else. LISA COLLINS was lucky enough to encounter this ‘prehistoric-looking predator’
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The raggies are coming
Where else can you enjoy world-class shark-diving one moment, and indulge yourself in a coffee shop the next? GAVIN PARSONS gets among the tiger and ragged-tooth sharks, and busts some myths about Protea Banks
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Tigers & lemons
Not everyone approves of this sort of baited diving, but Paul Woodburn was up for some shark-diving thrills on a liveaboard out of Florida
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Shark bait?
Non-divers, they just don’t understand – after all the negative publicity about sharks in the Red Sea, Mark Davies sets out to the Brothers to redress the balance. Photography by Tim Ingmire and Kirk Mottershead
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Scions of the deep blue
Want to dive with blue sharks – and perhaps makos too? Only the Azores can offer a high chance of success, says marine biologist Justin Hart. Images by Jan Reyniers more...
Uncaged minds
Off the southern tip of South Africa, great white sharks converge with an expanding human population. Most of the encounters are by choice, as visitors from around the globe immerse themselves in cage-diving. But just what effect, asks Justin Gilligan, is this activity having on the sharks?
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Basking sharks are go!
It may just be a soup-eater, but when you're propelled at the world's second-biggest shark from a yellow kayak, it does give you pause for thought, says Stuart Philpottmore...
Dining out with the sacred cows
He's not a shark expert, hasn't studied shark behaviour and belongs to no shark conservation groups, though he was once hit by a shark that wasn't looking where it was going. Good job HE Sawyer doesn't bear a grudge
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