411 Dive Log Australasia April 2025

Many of the dive guides here are experienced freedivers, as can be seen in the background.

Once settled, a couple of guides call the boat in by sending up a cloud of bubbles, and half a dozen or so fish heads are dropped down to them. These are placed on the bottom under a pile of rocks and then the tigers start to come around to see if they can get one. In four dives here, the lowest number of tigers was two, the highest five, and they all behaved beautifully, with the dive guides showing that they were in total control of the situation. All without the shark sticks you see at other shark dives. The guides move the sharks away from problematic situations by proximity, which is really amazing to see. Did I mention that the viz here is often over 50m? With no river systems even close, the water around this island is

stunningly blue. There have been over 250 different individual tiger sharks recorded at Tiger Point, and often they can be seen on the dive sites close to the harbor as they go back and forth to the feed. The ones I saw were typically around the 4m mark, but I’m told different sizes do come in.

Not once here did I feel threatened by these large tiger sharks, even when they passed straight overhead

Sunsets from around the island are spectacular, and the weather this close to the equator is warm!

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