Shark Diving Tour in Jupiter

I know that in diving we cannot control the animals but I was so excited because of doing 3 shark dives and I was very disappointed of only having one shark show up on the first 2 dives and not even one on the last dive. I didn’t expect all kinds but at least having some more around yes. And then if lucky maybe a bull shark. But regarding the crew everything was ok

Great dive with an amazing charter. Went out of their way to accomodate my son and me for his birthday. Greatly appreciate all that they did in making us experience an incredible dive.

My first time diving with Emerald. Ended up only being three of us. We were told to expect a super personal, fun experience since we have the whole day to ourselves. Things began going wrong immediately. Heading out to the 1st site, getting our gear ready, my husband’s tank was stripped, zero chance anyone was getting a reg hooked up to it. Had to turn around & go back to the dock as you guys didn’t have a single spare tank on board. What if that tank had been for use on the 2nd or 3rd dive? He would have been SOL I guess? During the ride out, the guide’s talk included this, “Stay with me. When I’m ready to dive, I jump in and immediately go down. None of this floating for a bit to watch everyone pat the tops of your heads, no making sure everyone is ok, that is unnecessary. Go straight down with me, and I go fast. Keep up! When I’m ready to go up, you better follow me because I’m not waiting on you.” I was having problems with my tank strap. Captain reached the 1st site and yelled Dive!Dive!Dive! The guide jumped in along with the one other diver. Never looked at any of us or asked if everyone was ready. Put his fins on and in he went. Somehow my tank strap got twisted so my husband was trying to help me latch it again. The captain yelled at us, “Dive! Get off the boat! Fix that later in the water!” Ummm, okay…jump on in and fight to fix it in that current rather than on the boat in a controlled environment? My husband said there is no way he was sending me in without my tank strapped properly. I understand there being a pretty decent current and needing to get in together in short order. If the guy would have even looked up once, he would have seen I needed just a couple of seconds to redo the stupid strap. Nope. The captain easily could have circled back around to the drop. Pretty sure the boat had the ability to do that. After all, capt got us to the site initially, as well as the remaining sites, and back to the dock. 🤷‍♀️ …and there were only three of us! It’s not like I was holding up an entire boat of paying customers. We jumped in and could see faint bubbles from the guide & the other diver. Couldn’t see them at all. They were both long gone. Vis was maybe 40 feet. We headed that way. I had a tiny bit of trouble equalizing this dive. We finally made our way to visibly see the guide. My ears were super painful and I tried to go up a a little a couple times but he kept basically ‘yelling’ at me to get back down, being super animated with his hands and pointed down then tossing his hands out and shaking them in the “what are you fu*#ing doing” motion. I used proper signaling to communicate my issue. My nose started bleeding, my ears were shot, I was a nervous wreck! I went back up to the boat. Trying to get on, we were not allowed to take a single thing off to help climb up the ladder. I was struggling so hard climbing with my fins on. Finally made it halfway up the ladder and was exhausted. I literally had no strength to step up onto the back of the boat. When I reached the top, I had to just use my knee to get fully up on the boat but again got yelled at by the captain, “Get your knee OFF the boat! Stand up! Stop using your knee to crawl!” The guide said he can’t have me in the water with them. When we made it back to the dock, the captain said, “Maybe you can come back and try again some day.” 😂🤣 P.S. - As a side note, the website for Emerald Charters says a ‘gourmet’ lunch is provided. They gave us a soggy ham sandwich, pretzels, and coke or water. I am completely taken aback by how the Emerald staff treats paying guests. By speaking to a lot of other folks on Florida dive groups, it sounds like the norm. In fact, the charter I went out with yesterday guessed exactly who I went with and I never even said Emerald’s name.

Absolutely the most amazing dive of my life! Incredible Captain and crew. Thank you Josh, Jeff and the sharks for making this a truly memorable experience and for filming our shark diving marriage proposal! Jerry and Maira Vittorelli Gizenski.

great crew, great adventure, lots of sharks, and a very save team.

Had a great time! Such a glorious experience to be with these amazing creatures of the deep. Except the 'gourmet' lunch is mediocre and it would be nice to have a option for vegetarian/vegans please when you make a reservation!

We always have a great experience when we go out on the shark dives and we always look forward to coming back! Always a great crew to show you a great experience and a good time! #sharklove #sharkboatoohhaha