Professional diver Bartolomeo Bove goes underwater and gets up close with sharks during a feeding session off the coast of Florida.

Filmed in 2017, Bove films his close encounters with several sharks that whizz past him and clamp their teeth into chunks of floating bait made from a kind of tuna called bonita.

Bove told Newsflare: "The stretch of ocean between Palm Beach County, Florida and The Bahamas is one of the few places in the world where it is possible to find a rich variety of sharks year-round.

"The warm Gulf Stream attracts a lot of baitfish, small fish that represent a food source for larger fish that are in turn the sharks natural prey. The vast majority of the shark species found in Florida waters are migratory."

My name is Bartolomeo Bove, I am a professional shark diver and underwater videographer based in Florida. I filmed this video off the coast of Jupiter, Palm Beach County, Florida, while free diving with the sharks throughout late Spring and Summer 2017.

The stretch of ocean between Palm Beach County, Florida and The Bahamas is one of the few places in the world where it is possible to find a rich variety of sharks year-round.

The warm Gulf Stream attracts a lot of bait fish, small fish that represent a food source for larger fish that are in turn the sharks natural prey. The vast majority of the shark species found in Florida waters are migratory.

In the video 8 different species of sharks are shown: lemon, silky, blacktip, bull, sandbar, Caribbean reef, tiger and great hammerhead.
Some of the sharks in the video are filmed at a very close range while grabbing bait, chunks of a kind of tuna called bonita, which is a favorite food by the sharks that roam the Florida waters.


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