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In the last week of January 2007, Shawn Heinrichs, Oscar van Tol and I joined up to experience one of Jim Abernethy’s famous Shark Expeditions off the Bahamas. We left West Palm Beach in MV Shear Water for Grand Bahama on Monday night 22nd January and returned a week later. Although the weather was not kind to us for the last three days of the trip we were certainly not disappointed as we dived with all the shark species we had hoped to meet. These included Tiger Sharks, Lemon Sharks, Caribbean Reef Sharks, Bull Sharks, Nurse Sharks, and we even had a couple of brief encounters with Great Hammerhead Sharks. This trip is highly recommended for any shark lover. Jim is a true professional and his briefings and guidance ensure the trip is a safe one as well as truly spectacular. He is also an outstanding photographer - all of the following photos were taken by Jim unless indicated otherwise. See Jim’s web site for more details. See a video clip of our action at Tiger Beach here.

Nick

Shawn

Oscar

Shear Water under way

Nick with LMI BlueFin and Sony FX1

A Tiger passes under the Shear Water at Tiger Beach

Nick & ‘Emma’ at Tiger Beach (photo: Nadine Umbscheiden)

Shawn and Tiger, Tiger Beach

Oscar and Tiger, Tiger Beach

Oscar gets a close up

Tiger Beach

Shawn and Lemon Shark, Tiger Beach

Videoing remora fish cleaning a Lemon Shark’s teeth

After the dives - boarding the Shear Water

Nick with Dolphins

Dolphin snorkel at sea

Bull Shark at ‘Mount Mokarran’

Tiger at ‘Mount Mokarran’

The ‘Galapagos’ Team

Crew: Jim, Jake, John & Wade at back, plus rest of us

“Make like a tiger” said Jim