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I've always hear Cocos Islands were the place to go, but as you have alluded, there are LOTS of options. I dived Molokai and saw hammerheads and a sandbar.
Most tropical reef systems offer chance encounters with sharks, especially Grey/Caribbean Reef and White Tips. However, the best sites I have been to, or been personally recommended too for shark encounters are...
Overall best picks.....
South Africa (Aliwal Shoal & Protea Banks) - Tiger, Great White, Bronze Whaler, Zambezi (Bull), Nurse etc
FIJI!!!!
i did a shark dive here and it was awsome. i was basically watching a feeding frenzy with a tiger, loads of bulls, lemons, black and white tips and nurse sharks! the action was happening right in front of us and the tiger that rocked up that day (rare for a tiger to be there) swam rignt over our heads, close enough i could have touched it!!! the fijians were hand feeding these huge sharks!
it you ever go to fiji go to pacific harbour and do this dive!
I agree with DevonDiver on South Africa. I did many shark dives on the Protea Banks, KwaZul-Natal, South Africa, and that is the place to dive for Tigers, Bulls, Hammerheads, Blacktips, Raggies. Down in the Cape, South Africa is the spot for Great White diving!!
Cocos! in 8 days of diving we saw large schools of hammerheads, night dives with hundreds of hunting white tips, a whale shark, Galapagos shark and some silvertips. See the link below for more info.
Gotta plug Galapagos. Saw about 100 hammerheads in 2 back to back dives at Mosqueras a couple weeks back. (supposed to be the easy site and hammerheads are rare). I don't even count white-tipped reef sharks as sharks anymore. Have also seen Galapagos Sharks and silkys, but only 1 whale shark. Giant mantas aren't sharks, but I still enjoy seeing them and schools of eagle rays.
Did something I never thought I'd do in July...After ascent, sailor yells there are fins all around me. I dropped a few feet and saw nothing, so I thought he was kidding. But after climbing into the boat, realized they were indeed everywhere. So I grabbed a snorkel and jumped back in. Easy to lift your head and see fins all around, hard to see them in the water, though I did get a beautiful view of 1 close enough to touch. Diving with sharks is common in the Galapagos...but snorkeling with them is probably as close as I'll get to freediving. What a cool experience!
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