Dolphin Dream set out from Palm Beach, Florida, last week. Once more in search of the dolphins and sharks of the Little Bahama Bank, bearing Brits under the benign eye of Charles Hood (now well-known in Cornwall for his own shark-diving trips) and the glittering eyes of skipper "Scott" Smith (well-known for the Shell Dance, of which the less said, the better).
A little wind and rain marred the first few days, and the dolphins, having acquired a sense of photographic mischief, turned up at twilight, but the usual suspects, lemon sharks at Tiger Beach and reef sharks on the low reef at "Fish Tales" were happy to swirl around bait, old hands at shark photography and new initiates into cage-less shark diving.
The tiger sharks were a little circumspect at first, but only a little...