About Shark Diver - The Company

Shark Diver is...You.

Most of our shark divers are regular folks who just love sharks. Many have held an ongoing fascination with sharks and cage diving since childhood but until now did not realize that they could travel easily from the “office to the ocean” to meet the sharks of their dreams.

We created Shark Diver just for you. Ten years and 4900 newly minted shark divers later, we’re still going strong. From specially designed cage systems that allow divers and non-divers the luxury of white shark encounters, to specialized benthic cage systems in the Bahamas, our goal has always been to open the amazing world of sharks to the general public.

Shark Divers CEO

Every shark diving company has a CEO and ours is always on the move. Meet Patric Douglas.

As a twenty year veteran of the global tourism industry with his humble beginnings leading 21 day tours around the planet, Patric has spent the last decade with Shark Diver discovering new shark sites and developing conservation initiatives for sharks.

One of his first phone calls in 2002 from Isla Guadalupe, after coming back from a cage dive featuring seven different animals, was to Dr. Peter Klimley at U.C Davis. That remarkable phone call and many years of logistic support later, lead to the first ever U.S and Mexican cooperative tagging programs at Isla Guadalupe. Patric went on to create the Isla Guadalupe Conservation Fund website and was soon traveling to Alaska to cage dive with Salmon sharks and Honduras to be the first commercial shark diving industry member to encounter giant Sixgill sharks at 2000’ - in a private submarine.

He has been a staunch advocate for the global shark diving industry, and for sharks. In 2007 and again in 2008 adult Tiger sharks were killed by sport fishermen in the Bahamas for a few pictures and a set of jaws. The animals were gravid (pregnant) and from this disaster sprang The Shark-Free Marinas Initiative concept. The initiative started with and was the brainchild of Shark Diver and today, under the remarkable guidance of marine biologist Luke Tipple, and a few early supporters within the industry, enjoys wide acceptance saving sharks from Fiji to Florida.

The Shark-Free Marinas Initiative is supported by Guy Harvey, Slash, The Humane Society, Nigel Barker and a host of celebrities and conservation groups. In 2011 the initiative launched a series of PSA's that quickly went viral helping spread the word about shark conservation. Patric's involvement with shark conservation has always stressed long term metrics for success. Saving sharks is a marathon event, and if these magnificent animals are to survive the next 40 years it will be through long term and successful programs that change, educate, and ultimately slow the take of sharks down.

Patric developed Shark Divers in 2003 as the film and television arm of Shark Diver. Shark Divers features a talented in house shark production crew that has worked with MythBusters, CNN, AT and T, SPIKE TV, National Geographic, BBDO and many others. Consulting for productions with rare Alaskan Salmon Sharks and providing the first look at New Zealand white sharks in 3D are just a few of Shark Divers ongoing projects. Although film and television productions with sharks are exciting Patric understands that negative shark productions do great harm to the perception of sharks. Responsible commercial shark diving operators can effect change with productions by working with producers and story lines that tell the real story about sharks. Not the 1970's Jaws myth we have all come to know. What the global audience sees on television with sharks starts with the front line operators.

Patric also pioneered mega yacht shark diving services at Isla Guadalupe in 2005 with the yacht M/Y Triton. Many more private yachts followed, and today Shark Diver remains the largest purveyor of private shark cage systems worldwide, building and servicing private shark cages while providing specialized shark crews and services to remote places like the South Pacific, Alaska, Mexico and beyond.

When not on the latest shark diving expedition or discovering new adventures, Patric can be found on blue ribbon streams-fly fishing California's many outstanding trout destinations or in remote locations discovering sharks.

Join him and his crew on for the dive experience of a lifetime and come face to face with your favorite big water shark this year. The only thing you have to lose is another amazing vacation. As a commercial shark diving company we believe industry leadership begins by leading. Shark Diver is dedicated to that idea.

When you book your shark diving adventure with us you help us make the necessary industry changes to shark research and shark conservation.

Thank you.