Tiger Beach Freedom
Where on earth can you find this??(Photo: Fiona Ayerst)This is what makes Tiger Beach so unique: The incredible clarity of the Bahamian Sea, the submarine beach, and the majestic tigers…Felix and I have the added bonus that Captain Scott Smith of the “Dolphin Dream” allows us to freedive with the sharks. While it may not sound like a big deal, it is Scottie’s way of saying: “I trust you guys as you know what you are doing.”Diving freedom and as little interference from the operator as possible (preferably none at all) is what I want, indeed need, to feel good when I dive with sharks.I have free-dived almost all my life alone; it’s been forty years when I saw my first shark while spear-fishing in the Virgin Islands. I was 27 then. Many shark operators are in their late thirties or early forties – what can they tell an old, saggy bagged sea wolf about shark-diving? 
Feeling good in good company…(Photo: Dr. iur. Paul “Playbird” Spielvogel)To imagine that somebody would tell me: Kneel down, here is your shark billy just in case, form a semi-circle, and don’t touch “it” (touch what?, the fish called Wanda? would be totally unacceptable – NO WAY, JOSE. Not for me!!!