White Shark Cage Diving

White Shark Cage Diving in Mexico

Note: The Mexican authorities have closed Guadalupe Island Biosphere for the coming summer season. As an alternative we are offering several Sea of Cortez and Socorro Island diving adventures. Please contact us for more information.

There are only a few places in the world where you can dive with Great White sharks, and Mexico is our favorite. A unique photography experience for divers as well as non divers!

Together with our local partner in Mexico, we can offer liveaboard shark diving safaris out to the small island of Guadalupe in the Pacific Ocean, close to Ensenada. At least 100 Great Whites visit a particular bay at this island during shark season and we have special permission from the government to anchor there. This allows us virtually unlimited diving with the sharks in generally calm sea conditions. Visibility is usually around 25-40 metres in very blue water, with water temperatures of 21-22 degrees celcius.

What is special and unique about this operation is that you can go in the water with the sharks, instead of sitting at the surface peering down into the depths. The Great White sharks always circle around underneath the vessel in 10 - 15 metres of water. Instead of waiting for them to come to the surface, you can now dive down into their world. We use submersible cages to descend down 10 - 12 metres and the the experience is phenomenal. We don't use any oil or blood to lure them, the sharks are already there!

The cages go up and down every 35 minutes, always with a divemaster in each one. Diving is done via surface supplied "hookah", although there is backup dive gear in each cage.

The Great Whites often follow the submersible cages up to the surface and will hang around for a bit so we also have a 7 metres long surface cage tethered off the back of the ship. Dive time is virtually unlimited from dawn to dusk during the three days that we are anchored on site.