Cristina Zenato Instagram – We have embarked on the first 2024 educational CZKL liveaboard trip around The Bahamas to allow divers to meet and learn about at least seven different species of sharks; at the same time, someone published an article about the consistent global decline of shark populations, despite new conservation laws.
Enforcement in a vast, wide ocean will always be a significant issue, especially when paired with individuals who are offered shark fins 100 times more than what they could dream of making with any other job.
The shark fin markets exploit social differences and low-income populations; these populations cannot ignore those offers when making ends meet is an essential survival matter.
Those who fin sharks on the boats are, at times, the desperate people of these societies, and it’s with them that we need to work, not against them.
Better solutions and education to show how a living shark can provide better income than a dead one for them and their kids would be a significant step forward. Still, we also need people to step off their pedestal condemning lead shark encounters.
Through our work and throughout The Bahamas, live shark encounters are a viable way for locals to make a living and understand that protecting sharks provides a long-term income.
For our trips, we only use local live aboard, owned and managed by local people registered in The Bahamas; it provisions here and asks people to come into the Country, providing a radiate income for those not directly involved in shark diving.
We currently have three more trips scheduled for 2024 (all fully booked) and four more for 2025 (three fully booked and one with still space on board- April 6-16.) If you want to learn more about our trips, message us at [email protected]. The current price for 2025 is $5924 per person, with a maximum capacity of six individuals on the boat.
Image by @kewinlorenzen from our Caribbean Reef shark encounter from yesterday, January 17th 2024.
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