Tourism activities centered around witnessing the great white sharks near Mexico’s Isla Guadalupe have been banned by the government. Mexican officials barred shark-watching activities, sport ...

In 2019, about 2,800 visitors participated in some sort of shark cage tourism at Isla Guadalupe. From 2014 until 2019, the number of shark cage diving vessel operators increased from six to 10.

In Isla Guadalupe, dives to see great white sharks have more of an eco-tourism focus than operations that may antagonize them. Although Peter Benchley’s book “Jaws” and Steven Spielberg’s ...

The species' population has plunged by more than 70% in some places, but not off the coast of Mexico's Isla Guadalupe, where people pay thousands of dollars to cage dive with them.