page_title: Shark tourism
section_title: Great white shark
hierarchical_section_title: Shark tourism / Great white shark
caption_attribution_description: العربية: قرش أبيض كبير في مياه جزيرة غوادالوبيه، بالمكسيك، أغسطس 2006. ألتقطت الصورة باستخدام آلة نيكون D70s، بالضوء الطبيعي. يُقدّر طول هذا الحيوان بين 11 و12 قدم (بين 3.3 و3.6 أمتار)، أما سنّه فغير معلوم. Deutsch: ein weißer Hai in einem Schwarm (mutmaßlicher) Tunfische, nahe der mexikanischen Insel Guadalupe; der Hai ist etwa 3,3 bis 3,6 Meter (oder 11 bis 12 Fuß) lang; das Bild wurde in natürlichem Licht mit einer Nikon D70s im Ikelite-Gehäuse[1] abgelichtet English: Great white shark at Isla Guadalupe, Mexico, August 2006. Shot with Nikon D70s in Ikelite housing, in natural light. Animal estimated at 11-12 feet (3.3 to 3.6 m) in length, age unknown. Italiano: Grande squalo bianco all'isola Guadalupe, Messico, Agosto 2006. Fotografato con Nikon D70s in Ikelite housing, con luce naturale. Lunghezza stimata 11-12 piedi (da 3,3 a 3,6 m), età sconosciuta. Español: Gran tiburón blanco (Carcharodon carcharias) fotografiado cerca de Isla Guadalupe, México, Agosto de 2006. Espécimen de longitud estimada entre 3,3 y 3,6 metros, se desconoce la edad del mismo Français&#160;: Photographie d'un Grand requin blanc (Carcharodon carcharias) de 3,5 mètres environ, prise à l'île Guadalupe en août 2006. Matériel&#160;: Nikon D70s dans un caisson étanche Ikelite. Čeština: Žralok bílý
context_page_description: Shark tourism is a way for tourists to see sharks the ocean rather than in an aquarium. It is a form of eco-tourism intended to show in that local shark species are more valuable alive than dead. Instead of opting for a one time economic benefit of harvesting sharks for their body parts, communities are enabled to assist tourists who want to see live sharks. People can get close to the sharks by free- or scuba diving or entering the water in a protective cage.
context_section_description: Great white shark viewing is available at the Neptune Islands in South Australia, South Africa, Isla Guadalupe in Mexico, and New Zealand. Great white sharks are usually viewed using shark cages to protect the diver. Because of the exceptional visibility underwater in Isla Guadalupe, more outside the cage diving is done than anywhere else.
  The great white shark viewing industry was founded in the 1970s by pioneer Australian diver and great white attack survivor Rodney Fox in South Australia. He was the sole world-wide operator until the South African industry was founded in early 1989 by Pieter van der Walt who was joined shortly thereafter by pioneer diver and underwater photographer George Askew who handled promotions and put South African cage diving "on the map" with the publicity he got - until they split in Jan 1992, after they, together with famous Australian divers, Ron and Valerie Taylor, did the world's first dive amongst great white sharks without a cage and completely unprotected.
  This dive was directly responsible for the upsurge in shark tourism – especially free-diving (i.e. out of cage) swimming with big sharks. When  operators around the world became aware that the great white was quite approachable and not likely to attack they considered whether the other  sharks with bad reputations like Tigers, Bulls and Oceanic's might be safe enough to swim with too. This proved to be the case and shark tourism has become a multi-million-dollar a year industry. In attempts to protect the great white shark species, in some places such as South Australia, there is mandatory logbook reporting and photograph/identification required to monitor how cage-diving tourism may impact white sharks involved in these tourism interactions.
caption: Great white shark at Isla Guadalupe, Mexico, August 2006. Shot with Nikon D70s in Ikelite housing, in natural light. Animal estimated at 11-12 feet (3.3 to 3.6 m) in length, age unknown
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