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Olympus Dive Center/Oceanana: "Sharks!", Jul, 2019, by James Wise, AR, US ( Reviewer 5 reports with 6 Helpful votes). Report 10986.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food	N/A
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity
Dive Operation		Shore Diving	N/A
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$
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Comments	This is an excellent experience! This isn’t for everyone and has a few caveats. Caveats: 1: The weather is highly variable. I was booked for three days flew in and got canceled 2 out of 3 days in mid-July which is “prime season. Unfortunately Dive Centers don’t control the weather! 2: This isn’t a “ concierge “ service. You will have to carry your gear to the boat, carry your tanks to the boat and assemble your gear. Quite honestly I don’t really care for people messing with my gear. I had an o-ring on my DIN connection on my Poseidon Xstream Deep torn and leak air after someone else attached it to a tank. 3: There is No Guarantee that you will dive any given dive site. Lots of people want to do the U-352 for obvious reasons, but to me the experience with Sharks at Aeolus and Caribsea is hard to beat. 4: This isn’t for beginners! It’s diving 115 ft in the open ocean 30 miles off shore with current at depth. You need to be confident and Experienced! Have you ever been Experienced? Positives: The most incredible Sand Tiger Shark experience ever in my limited experience. Someone took a photo and counted 64 Sand Tiger Sharks at the Caribsea. At one point my dive buddy and I were cornered by 7-10 on the port side. I literally could have moved my hand 3 inches and touched the nose of a Sand Tiger right in front of me. The current was about a knot and a half. SE to Nw at site. They use weighted tag lines which are very helpful for ingress and egress. Surface temp was 88 f thermocline at 60 ft. Temp at depth was 74f. 3 mil wet suit kept me cozy. Some dove with no rash guard, but both got stung by small jellyfish. We did see a big group of barracuda hanging around the tag lines.
Websites	Olympus Dive Center Oceanana
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	26-50 dives
Where else diving	Cuba, St. Thomas, Puerto Rico, Florida, Arkansas, NC
Closest Airport	Jacksonville,NC -OAJ	Getting There	American into Charlotte hub, then Jacksonville, rent-a-car to Morehead City, NC
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny, windy	Seas	calm
Water Temp	84-74°F / 29-23°C	Wetsuit Thickness
Water Visibility	80-100 Ft/ 24-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	Dive Buddy. We did have some guys with HP steel 130’s do Deco.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	yes
What I Saw
Sharks	Lots	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	None	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals	N/A	Tropical Fish	N/A
Small Critters	N/A	Large Fish	N/A
Large Pelagics	N/A
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter	N/A	Boat Facilities	N/A
Overall rating for UWP's	N/A	Shore Facilities	N/A
UW Photo Comments	Camera dedicated rinse station. I’m not a videographer but there were some professionals there that had huge rigs that were well handled with no complaints.

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Dive Review of Olympus Dive Center/Oceanana in The Continental USA/Graveyard of the Atlantic

Olympus Dive Center/Oceanana: "Sharks!", Jul, 2019,

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Dive Review of Olympus Dive Center/Oceanana in
The Continental USA/Graveyard of the Atlantic