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Shot Of Bahamas Tiger Shark Wins Scuba Tours Worldwide’s Underwater Photographic Competition
Damian Brown has travelled all over the world with UK based tour operator Scuba Tours Worldwide and last year they arranged his dive holiday to the Bahamas.
“The trip was absolutely fantastic … on one dive we had around 30 Caribbean, 15 Lemon, 1 Nurse and 11 Tiger sharks in view at once! I will be surprised if anywhere could live up to that for shark encounters – both in terms of numbers and the close proximity,” said Damien.
Damian entered some of the images from his trip into the Scuba Tours Worldwide Underwater Photographic Competition and his amazing shot of a Tiger Shark has been awarded Overall First Prize. Damian wins a fabulous holiday on board Sea Queen or Sea Spirit in the Maldives.
Here’s the winning shot:
As well as amazing shark encounters, the Bahamas is also well known for its spectacular walls and blue holes (of which Dean’s Blue Hole is the world’s deepest at 663 feet), ship and plane wrecks, unspoilt reefs and the chance to swim with wild dolphins. There are also sea turtles, conch, a plethora of reef fish, spiny lobster – with the ‘march of the lobster’ taking place in November – and during late January/early February some islands experience huge shoals of spawning groupers … which happen to be the national fish of the Bahamas.
See more of Damian’s images on the Scuba Tours Worldwide website Gallery and for more information on the Bahamas see the new Bahamas web page on the site. If you would like to speak to one of Scuba Tours Worldwide’s sales team call +44 (0)1284 748010.
Over the next 12 months, specialist scuba holiday company Dive Worldwide will be supporting Bite-Back Shark & Marine Conservation with donations collected from client bookings to any one of its stunning dive destinations around the world. The independently-owned operator expects to raise £3000 for the UK charity.
Manager at Dive Worldwide, Phil North, said: “We’re especially excited to work with Bite-Back and support its intelligent, creative and results-driven campaigns to end the UK trade in shark products and prompt a change in attitudes to the ocean’s most maligned inhabitant.”
Bite-Back is running campaigns to hold the media to account on the way it reports shark news along with a brand new nationwide education programme. Last year the charity was credited for spearheading a UK ban on the import and export of shark fins.
Campaign director at Bite-Back, Graham Buckingham, said: “We’re enormously grateful to Dive Worldwide for choosing to support Bite-Back. The company’s commitment to conservation helps set it apart from other tour operators and we’re certain its clients admire and respect that policy. For us, the affiliation is huge and helps us look to the future with confidence we can deliver against key conservation programmes.”
To launch the fundraising initiative, Phil North presented Graham Buckingham with a cheque for £1,000.
Visit Dive Worldwide to discover its diverse range of international scuba adventures and visit Bite-Back to learn more about the charity’s campaigns.
MORE INFORMATION
Call Graham Buckingham on 07810 454 266 or email graham@bite-back.com
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