Bimini
Caribbean
Bahamas
£2.50
Bimini: The Hammerhead Highway
Bimini is world-famous for one thing: Big. Hammerheads. This tiny island in the Bahamas is one of the only places on Earth where you can reliably encounter the massive Great Hammerhead Shark in shallow water. Unlike their schooling cousins, these solitary giants are huge—some reaching over 14 feet—and incredibly impressive. Every winter, they cruise the shallow sandy flats around Bimini, offering divers and snorkelers a front-row seat to see one of the ocean's most unique predators in high definition. It is an intimate, bucket-list experience that brings you eye-to-eye with a true legend.
Why We Chose This Sticker Design
The Great Hammerhead is distinct because of its massive, straight dorsal fin and huge size, so we made sure this sticker captured that sheer scale. We illustrated the shark swimming right up to the "lens," highlighting its signature cephalofoil (hammer) head shape and that curious eye looking right back at you. The background is kept simple with bright, shallow tropical blue water and a sandy bottom, emphasizing that this is a shallow-water encounter where the sunlight makes every detail of the shark pop.
Diving Bimini
Bimini is a small Bahamian island close to the Florida coast, and it has become the most reliable place in the world to dive with great hammerheads. Each winter these large, solitary sharks arrive on the shallow sand flats, where baited dives put divers eye to eye with animals that can exceed four metres — in bright, clear water only a few metres deep. Bull sharks and stingrays share the site. Outside hammerhead season Bimini is quiet, with pleasant reefs and the curious Bimini Road rock formation.
- Best time to dive
- Great hammerheads roughly December to March
- Difficulty
- Intermediate — shallow, but demands calm baited-dive discipline
- Water temperature
- 22–28°C
- Visibility
- 20–30m
Top dive sites
- •Hammerhead flats — Shallow sand site for great hammerhead encounters
- •Bull shark dives — Often on the same sites through winter
- •Bimini Road — Submerged rock formation, shallow and easy
- •Victories wreck — Small wreck for a change of pace
What you’ll see
Frequently asked questions
When can you dive with great hammerheads at Bimini?
The season runs roughly from December to March, with January and February usually the most consistent. The sharks arrive on the shallow sand flats where operators run baited dives in only five to ten metres of water, so bottom times are long and the light is excellent for photography. Outside those months sightings drop off sharply, so if hammerheads are your reason for going, the timing is not flexible.
Is diving with great hammerheads dangerous?
Great hammerheads are large predators and the dives are baited, so the format matters — but the encounters have an excellent safety record with experienced operators. Divers kneel on the sand in a line while a feeder controls the bait well away from the group. The rules are simple and non-negotiable: stay low and still, keep your hands in, do not swim towards the shark. The sharks are typically cautious rather than aggressive.
