Where to see Great White Cage Diving in 2026
Great white shark · Carcharodon carcharias
Surface-cage encounters with white sharks at established aggregation sites. Non-decompression, no certification required at most operators.
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Difficulty & experience
No certification required for surface cage. Free-diving extensions require breath-hold competence.
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Methodology
How we picked these locations
We use the sighting-occurrence-cluster methodology: encounter regions are ranked from primary to closed based on documented occurrence records, operator continuity, and regulator permit status. We never publish per-trip sighting probabilities — “best” here means the most reliably documented region for this encounter, not a guarantee.
We aggregate confirmed occurrence records from GBIF and OBIS within a fixed radius of each dive site. Occurrence records confirm presence and reveal seasonality clustering, but they DO NOT measure per-dive probability — there is no eligible-effort denominator. We deliberately do not publish a numeric '% chance of sighting' from this data.
Sighting frequency is operator-reported. We do not present a per-trip probability without a documented effort denominator.