Atlantic Shark Expeditions Ltd.

What Atlantic Shark Expeditions Ltd. does

Atlantic Shark Expeditions Ltd. is a privately held experiential tourism company founded in 2023 that offers shark viewing and cage diving expeditions, alongside citizen science experiences intended to support shark research. Its functional role is to commercialize access to shark encounters for paying participants while contributing observational data to broader shark research efforts, positioning it at the intersection of adventure tourism and citizen science.

The underlying business is operationally driven — boat-based expeditions, dive crews, and on-site guides delivering the shark encounter experience — rather than a software or platform business. The website (atlanticsharkexp.com) returned only a security verification page during data collection, so product packaging, expedition itineraries, vessel specifications, location footprint, citizen science partner institutions, and pricing tiers could not be retrieved. No technology stack, proprietary features, or data products were disclosed, suggesting the "citizen science" component is most plausibly delivered via participant data collection in the field (e.g., photo-identification, sightings logs) routed to research collaborators, though this is not confirmed in the source.

The revenue model is presumed to be per-expedition ticket sales to leisure travelers, but no pricing, booking volumes, customer segments, marketing channels, or distribution partnerships are documented in the available material. No funding rounds, headcount, office locations, management team, awards, certifications, or partnership disclosures were available. As a result, scale, capitalization, and operational maturity cannot be assessed from the input data, and the company should be treated as an early-stage venture with material information gaps.

Name

Atlantic Shark Expeditions Ltd.

Website

https://atlanticsharkexp.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2023

Short description

Atlantic Shark Expeditions Ltd. is a privately held experiential tourism company founded in 2023 that offers shark viewing, cage diving expeditions, and citizen science experiences supporting shark research, serving leisure travelers seeking wildlife encounters.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Marine Wildlife Adventure Tourism

NAICS

Scenic and Sightseeing Transportation, Water (4872), Tour Operators (56152)

SIC

Services-Amusement & Recreation Services (7900), Water Transportation (4400)

akta.pro primary industry

Guided Diving & Snorkeling Excursions (boat/shore trips) (THAAAIAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Marine Conservation & Citizen-Science Experiences (reef monitoring, turtle walks) (THAAAIAH), Reef, Island & Coastal Ecotours (mangroves, lagoons, sea caves) (THAAAIAE)

Keywords

• Shark cage diving
• Shark viewing tours
• Citizen science experiences
• Marine wildlife tourism
• Shark research expeditions

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations

Core offering

Atlantic Shark Expeditions Ltd. operates marine wildlife expeditions offering shark viewing, cage diving experiences, and citizen science activities that contribute to shark research. The company sells guided, expedition-style encounters with sharks in the Atlantic as its core service, targeting paying participants rather than researchers or institutions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Broad incumbents

• OCEARCH: Marine research non-profit that runs public-facing shark-tagging expeditions and citizen-science trips. Comparable on the research/citizen-science angle but operates at much broader scale and across multiple species and oceans.

Direct peers

• Calypso Star Charters: Adelaide-based day-boat operator at the Neptune Islands running shark cage diving with a research/conservation mission. Highly comparable on day-trip model, citizen-science positioning, and species focus.
• White Shark Africa (Apex Shark Expeditions): Gansbaai-based South African operator running great-white shark cage diving trips. Same core product (Atlantic great-white cage diving) and similar short-haul adventure-tourist customer; serves as the obvious direct competitor if Atlantic Shark Expeditions is also Cape-focused.
• Beqa Adventure Divers: Fiji-based operator famous for bull-shark and tiger-shark feeding dives with a shark-conservation program funded by fees. Strong comparable on citizen-science/community-conservation revenue model and bucket-list shark-dive market.
• Neil Watson Dive Charters: Aliwal Shoal (South Africa) operator offering shark diving including ragged-tooth and tiger sharks. Comparable on boat-based predator diving and the same Atlantic/Indian Ocean mixed geography of the South African shark-diving market.
• Pisces Diving / Guadalupe Sharks (Mexico operators): Long-running Baja/Gulf of California shark-diving operators. Comparable on Atlantic-adjacent warm-water shark diving, conservation messaging, and dive-tourist distribution.
• Stuart Cove's Dive Bahamas: Established Caribbean (Bahamas) operator offering shark dives including the well-known Tiger Beach experience. Comparable on Atlantic basin geography, boat-based shark encounters, and dive-tourist customer.
• Horizon Charters / Nautilus Explorer (Guadalupe): Liveaboard operators running Guadalupe Island shark-cage itineraries. Comparable on vessel-based open-ocean cage diving and premium adventure-travel customer, though larger scale than a single-day start-up.
• Shark Diving Unlimited: Guadalupe Island (Mexico) liveaboard operator specializing in great-white shark cage diving. Comparable on product (open-water cage diving), vessel-based operations, and bucket-list adventure-travel customer base.
• Rodney Fox Shark Expeditions: Long-established Neptune Islands (South Australia) operator offering shark cage diving and shark-research participation. Most directly comparable to Atlantic Shark Expeditions on activity (cage diving), customer (adventure/eco travelers), and research-citizen-science positioning.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/AtlanticSharks
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/atlantic-shark-expeditions

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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