Discover the collection of my best shark diving stories around the world, from meeting thresher sharks in the Philippines to basking sharks in Scotland.
Category: Shark diving
Diving in the Galapagos: a first-timer guide
The Galapagos Islands are a dream, a promise, an overwhelming expectation. The Galapagos Islands deliver. But don’t believe it will come easy. The Galapagos are the Olympics of scuba diving. You’ll face turbine-like currents and chilling water temperatures. The diving conditions of the Ecuadorian archipelago …
Diving in Coiba, the Panamanian pearl of the Pacific
It was my first big adventure in Panama. A month later, after living in Panama City, I was already back. Coiba Island is the largest island on the Pacific coast of Central America. With 38 other islands and islets over a marine area of more …
Diving in Fakarava shark paradise, French Polynesia
Before setting foot for the first time on Tahiti and its islands, diving in Fakarava sounded to me like the ultimate shark experience in Polynesia. I was then initially concerned if it wouldn’t be too crowded. Located in the Tuamotu Islands, Fakarava is the second-largest …
Manihi, diving off the beaten track in the Tuamotu Islands
The Tuamotu Archipelago is one of the 5 main archipelagos of French Polynesia. It covers a gigantic area of 800,000 km² while having a total land surface which hardly exceeds 850 km². The 76 atolls of the Tuamotu are ancient volcanoes that collapsed millions of …
Diving Yonaguni: Mission Hammerhead Sharks
After my first trip to Okinawa in June last year, I decided to delay my visit to the islands of Yonaguni and Ishigaki to the beginning of this year. Knowing that winter is not the best season for diving Yonaguni because of the winds and currents, …
How my whale shark dream became true in Utila, Honduras
After hundreds of dives all around the world, I thought I was cursed. I could have seen one whale shark was in Gili Trawangan, Indonesia. The whale shark was below the boat at the safety stop, but I had ascended way before everyone else as my …
Shark diving in Scotland? Meet the basking sharks in the Sound of Mull
It was my second summer in Scotland. Like last year I had just arrived, I decided this year to use the experience I built up and to stay in Scotland the entire summer to explore more of the country underwater and beyond. The two scuba …
Diving Malapascua : playing hide and seek with the thresher shark
Going to the Philippines without indulging myself with some relaxing time on a paradise island? No, of course, that was not possible! But instead of going to overcrowded Bocaray, I decided to end my island hopping tour in the Visayas by Malapascua, the tiny island …