tiggymalvern | Shark Soup

I mentioned there were a lot of sharks, right?

https://youtu.be/NVnnBjGJKq0

For the afternoon dives at Roca, we started diving on the other side of the rock - the side with all the current and surge. We dropped in negatively buoyant and sank straight into shark soup.
The silky shark dives at Jardines de la Reina in Cuba were amazing. There were probably 30 sharks under the boat. I have video with 18 in one shot.
This was something else. Sharks above, below, out into the blue - mainly white-tips hugging the wall and silvertips further out, but a few were rule-breakers who broke the trend. You could be kicking full-on to stay in one spot and hoping you weren't kicking a shark in the face (I'm sure the sharks were too smart for that) because everywhere was sharks. And after 10-15 minutes, when you'd blown through a third of your air, you let the current take you around the point to hang out and chill on the lee side again. Among the most exhilarating dives of my life.
And this is why you sometimes want a naval base in a National Park/UNESCO World Heritage Site. It keeps the shark-finners away...