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Thanks, this was an interesting article.
I only have a few over 1000 dives in SE Florida. I have seen Hammerhead Sharks (big Great Hammerhead in Boynton just last August), a Tiger Shark, Manta Rays, Mobula Rays, sailfish, dolphins, and Eagle Rays, I've not seen a Whale Shark, a Humpback Whale, or a Great White Shark. I will be down March 3-11, I will certainly be looking aroundI have several thousand dives in South East Florida and have never seen a Great White! I have seen just about everything else including Whale Sharks, Tiger Sharks, Hammerhead Sharks, Manta Rays dolphins and even a Humpback Whale once. Seeing a Great White is on my bucket list!
Thanks everybody for the responses. I know that the chances of seeing a great white are pretty rare in most places, and that other potentially aggressive species are more common, but where I live there are stories in the news of sightings all the time in the summer with video or photos shot by fishermen or people on the beach. I'm still pretty much a novice diver so encountering one is something that I would like to avoid. I'm interested in diving in Key Largo, and it sounds like seeing a GW is a very rare occurrence there.
This is the great white activity for 2019 on Cape Cod. The orange icons are pings of tagged sharks and the blue icons are sightings.
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... and these are the signs at the beaches:
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I thought I read in the mainstream news of one being sighted just recently? I got the impression a sighting is very rare.