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Great Hammerhead Shark Diving Safari 2025

By February 28, 2025No Comments
Great Hammerhead Shark diving at Bimini Island, Bahamas.

Great Hammerhead Shark Safari 2025 Trip Report

Another fantastic Great Hammerhead trip! On our best day we saw 13 different Great Hammerheads and still found the time to snorkel with some Atlantic spotted dolphins. Each day of the trip we enjoyed at least two hammerhead dives and then went in search of other shark species. By the end of the trip we had dove with great hammerheads, bull sharks, Caribbean reef sharks, blacknose sharks, Oceanic blacktip sharks, and nurse sharks. Other that one stormy afternoon, the weather was as good as the diving. The Bahamas always delivers!
Great Hammerhead Shark diving at Bimini Island, Bahamas.
Day 1: Instant Hammerheads
Our first day in the water started with two great hammerhead shark feeds. The first hammerhead showed up within a few minutes of dropping the anchor and the viz was amazing!
Great Hammerhead Shark diving at Bimini Island, Bahamas.
Caribbean Reef Sharks
Around mid morning, the weather forecast changed dramatically, so we pulled anchor and heading to Triangle Rocks to sneak in a Caribbean Reef Shark dive before the weather forced us back to the harbour.
During the dive, the reefies were extremely bold, making close passes and allowing us to get some nice close ups.
Caribbean Reef Shark diving at Bimini Island, Bahamas.
Monster Hammerheads

On our second morning we saw seven different great hammerheads, including Queen; an enormous 14.5ft female hammer that dominates the other sharks whenever she shows up.

Great Hammerhead Shark diving at Bimini Island, Bahamas.
Great Hammerhead Shark diving at Bimini Island, Bahamas.
Snorkeling with Stingrays
In the afternoon we sailed over to Gun Cay; a popular spot for snorkeling with Southern Stingrays.
Southern stingray feed in Bimini.
Blacknose Sharks
After playing with the rays for a while, we donned scuba tanks and dropped a bait crate onto the sea grass to try to attract blacknose sharks. We managed to see a handful of blacknoses, which are very small sharks and quite shy, so getting images of them was a bit challenging, but I managed to snap some nice shots.
Blacknose Shark diving at Bimini Island, Bahamas.
Oceanic Blacktip Sharks
In past years, among the blacknose sharks I have seen one or two Oceanic Blacktip Sharks at this spot, so I was not surprised when a couple showed up, but they just kept coming! We probably ended up with around a dozen blacktips and they were far from shy, making fast passes at the bait and snatching it out of the feeder’s hand.
Blacktip Shark diving at Bimini Island, Bahamas.
Blacktip Shark diving at Bimini Island, Bahamas.
Atlantic Spotted Dolphins

The next day, we awoke to great conditions and decided to head offshore looking for Atlantic Spotted Dolphins which are seasonally resident around Bimini. We caught up with a small pod in open water north of Bimini and after watching them play at the surface for a while, we jumped in and snapped some images. One took a shine to me and spiraled around me while I duck dove. He came so close that it was hard to fit him in the frame of my wide angle lens!

Swimming with Atlantic spotted dolphins in the Bahamas.
Swimming with Atlantic spotted dolphins in the Bahamas.
Thirteen Great Hammerheads!

We returned to the hammerhead grounds and hit the jackpot. Over the course of the afternoon, 13 different hammerheads showed up. It was the best session of the entire season. All the big players were there including Queen, Gaia, Atlas, and many more that have been named and studied by the Bimini Shark Lab.

Its been a few years since I saw this many hammerheads in Bimini, so its nice to know the great hammerhead population is still thriving. We did not see any tiger sharks this year, which may be why so many showed up; some of the more timid hammerheads probably stay away when there are tiger sharks in town.

Great Hammerhead Shark diving at Bimini Island, Bahamas.
Great Hammerhead Shark diving at Bimini Island, Bahamas.
Sharks on a Wreck

On our last morning we headed to a wreck near the hammer grounds. The crew took a bait crate down to the wreck and chummed for sharks while the guests went exploring. By the end of the dive, they had attracted a handful of nurse sharks, but no hammerheads. It was a long shot that one would swim by, but worth a try for the chance of getting interesting shots of a great hammerhead swimming over a sunken boat.

Diving with nurse sharks on a wreck in Bimini, Bahamas.
Blissful Hammerhead Diving

We spent our final afternoon back at the hammerhead site, blissfully snapping images of what is arguably the world’s most bizarre looking shark. Diving with Great Hammerhead Sharks never gets old!

Diving with great hammerhead sharks.
Diving with great hammerhead sharks.
Hammerheads and Tiger Shark Diving 2026

Join us next February for a combined liveaboard trip to Hammerhead Central (Bimini Island) and world famous Tiger Beach and take home images and memories of the two most icon sharks in the Bahamas: Tiger Sharks and Great Hammerheads Combo Trip

Diving with great hammerhead sharks.
Diving with great hammerhead sharks.