# EastCoast Shark Diving??

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastcoast-shark-diving/117099>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 2, 2002, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastcoast-shark-diving/117099 "2002-07-02T21:19:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![dirty\_bird18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@dirty\_bird18](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirty_bird18)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastcoast-shark-diving/117099/1 "2002-07-02T21:19:09Z")

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Ok, my new fad is shark diving, and Iwas wondering if anyone knew of a good place to call or go to on the east coast of the US?

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**Author:** ![Coda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Coda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coda)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2002, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastcoast-shark-diving/117099/2 "2002-07-02T21:51:56Z")

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Well dpends on where you want to go. I live in Connecticut and have gone sharke diving all throughout new england. I had a fun cage dive last year off Montauk Long Island. Saw a huge female White shark. 20+foot long. She was feeding off a large dead sperm whale. This thing was ripping 55 gallon drum size chunks off the carcass. I was told by the guy running the dive that was a once in a lifetime experience. The most difficult thing about that dive was getting into the water _then_ getting into the cage. I thought I was going to get eaten for sure!!! It was fun though. Also one hassel I have seen up here, is that there are a lot of blue sharks, like an over abundance of the little shits. The ones I saw were really small, like 2,3,4 feet long. They came right into the cage on the first dive I went on. They wouldn’t bite but they were just annoying.  
If you are seriously looking for good shark dives on the east coast, I suggest go south to florida and the keys, they have a lot of good dives down there.

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eastcoast-shark-diving/117099/3 "2002-07-03T02:06:21Z")

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GQ if sor questions with factual answers. What constitutes a “good place” is a matter of opinion, so I’ll move this thread to IMHO.