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Swim with Blue Sharks Off the rugged coast of Pico Island in the Azores lies one of the world’s most thrilling dive experiences: a chance to descend into open Atlantic waters and meet the blue shark (Prionace glauca). At the seamount known as Condor Bank, pelagic currents converge, the depths fall away, and this elegant predator makes regular appearances. The dive begins with a boat ride well beyond the shoreline, into open ocean. Here there are no reef walls, no fixed ancho

If you love wild ocean encounters, Princess Alice Bank  is where your dreams meet the deep blue. Located far offshore from Pico Island  in the Azores, this submerged seamount is one of the best places in the Atlantic for diving  and snorkeling  with mobula rays , bait balls , and sometimes even a passing whale shark . Where is Princess Alice Bank? Princess Alice Bank is an underwater mountain that rises from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, its shallowest peak reaching about