Tiger Beach Bahamas: A Complete Guide to the dive

If you’re curious about how the Tiger Beach Bahamas dive runs, this is the guide for you. I’ve only ever done the Tiger Beach dive with Neal Watson’s Bimini Scuba Center. As always, always listen to your dive briefing and follow the instructions of the dive masters and crew on any dive you are doing.

Overview

Each diver will have a PVC pipe to help them re-direct any shark that gets too close.

Here is a diagram of how the dive will run:

The boat will pull up to Tiger Beach Bahamas. The crew will drop the bow and stern anchors and the bait box, and will begin to chum the water. This will bring in a lot of lemon sharks to the back of the boat and it’s fun to take pictures of them.

Keep a look out below! Once a tiger shark is spotted, the crew will get everyone ready to get into the water. YOU’RE DIVING TIGER BEACH!!

You will be wearing a lot of weight (at least 26 lbs) and will descend slowly to 25-30 feet (it’s a shallow dive) using the stern anchor line. Once on the bottom, you will see a semi-circle of PVC pipes, the feeder and bait box, and any other divers already in the water. Some crews will line you up in the order you get into the water and other crews will let you pick any open spot you want. Pick a spot and get ready for the show.

Picking your Spot

There really isn’t a bad seat in the house.

Considerations for Picking Your Spot:

Re-Directing Sharks: If you are nervous about the sharks swimming right up to you, then I would pick a position somewhere in the middle of the line of divers. If you’re on the end, you definitely have to keep an eye out and prepare to re-direct the sharks with your PVC pipe.
Photography: if you’re bringing a big camera rig, here’s my guide to photographing Tiger Beach.
Feeding: If you position yourself right behind the feeder or slightly to the left-behind the feeder, you will get to see a lot of open mouth hammerhead action.

Two Tank Dive with no safety stop

The crew will feed the tigers continuously for 1 hour. At the end of the hour, the divers will go up the line and back onto the boat. Once all the divers are back on the the boat, the crew will pull the paid box out of the water. Everyone will then wait the 1 hour surface interval together.

After the surface interval, everyone does it all again! Bait, PVC pipe down the line, DIVE TIGER BEACH BAHAMAS, back onto the boat, and then back to Grand Bahama.

Once you’re back on the boat, look at all the amazing photos and videos you got at Tiger Beach.