Species: Lemon, Tiger, Bull, Nurse, Blacktip, Blacknose & Sharpnose shark.
Location: South Bimini, Bahamas. 2006.
As part of my field research for my PhD, I was fortunate enough to head out to the Bimini Islands in the Bahamas. Stationed at the incredible Shark Lab founded by the legendary Doc Gruber on the South Island, I was conducting tagging studies on juvenile Lemon sharks to determine the depths and temperatures of the water they occupied.
Many volunteers and students have passed through the doors of the Shark Lab and I am sure all would agree with me when I say it is a truly incredible experience. To get the opportunity to work with sharks everyday was a dream realised. Handling, observing and freediving with all of these shark species, whilst being surrounded by the abundance of underwater fauna the Bimini Islands have to offer such as: Conch, Lobster, Rays, and entire Reef ecosystems teeming with life, was in short, an unparalleled experience in paradise.