Walkers Key bull shark experience

Pete Horsley · Issue 4, Jan 2002 · pp. 24–27

Products mentioned: Nikon F100, Subal housing, 20mm lens, Ektachrome Elite film

Over the past thirty one years I have swam with sharks all over the world but none of these experiences could prepare me for what I found at Walkers Cay in the Bahamas. It was a cold February morning when a select group of divers left for Walkers where we would be joined by the respected British shark expert Jeremy Stafford-Deitsch. The idea behind this trip dreamed up by Jeremy and the tour operator Divequest was to introduce a limited number of divers to these creatures under a supervised controlled condition having educated them in the thought processes of these the apex predators. The divers, now members of the Sharks Trust, would become ambassadors for this much maligned species and on their return to the |U.K. try in their own small way to pass on the facts about sharks and dispel the all to well known Hollywood image of these creatures. Walkers Cay and the diving operations manage…