Diving the Meg Ledge
My name is Jordan and I find, package, sell, run the website, and everything else related to Carolina Megs. I work as a divemaster on a megalodon tooth diving boat or going out with friends just to find teeth. I am a collector and loving finding teeth for my collection but I also enjoy helping other people to be able to own their own megalodon tooth and teaching people about sharks and fossils.
DIVING THE MEG LEDGE:
We travel between 25-45 miles off the coast of Carolina Beach, North Carolina to a series of ledges which help to congregate the teeth. A combination of the teeth washing out of the ancient shoreline, and the ocean currents moving sand as they work their way around the ledge has created the perfect conditions for finding megalodon teeth.
The meg ledge was originally found by spear fisherman targeting the abundant fish along the rocky reefs we call "the meg ledge".
After a 2-3 hour boat ride, we pull up to one of the many sites we have marked on our GPS. The anchor is carefully dropped and once on the bottom and creates a lifeline for divers to find the ledge and safely return to the boat.
I gear up and jump off the boat. I find the anchor line and begin my descent into the blue / green ahead of me. The line stretches diagonally down into nothingness and I loosely wrap my fingers around it as I exhale and sink the 100 feet down to the seafloor.
Once I'm at the bottom I clip into the anchor line with my wreck reel and begin the hunt. I'm looking for a fossil bed - a stretch of debris and rubble that most of the sand has been washed away from. What remains is a pit of whale bones, megalodon and other shark teeth, and normal rocks.
Bingo! I spot a flash of silver. I brush some sand away until more tooth is revealed and I can slide the classic 5 inch Carolina megalodon tooth from its 10 million year old resting place.
Please let me know if you have any questions!