Editorial policy

This page sets out how we research, write, date, and correct everything on Tiger Shark Fuvahmulah. It exists so the rest of the guide can get on with helping you plan — the standards live here, once, instead of cluttering every page with disclaimers.

Where our facts come from

We prefer primary and official sources: peer-reviewed research, government and airline pages, UNESCO documentation, and operators’ own published information. Scientific claims name their source in the text so you can check them — for example, the count of individually identified tiger sharks comes from a 2024 study, cited by name on the pages that use it.

When a fact comes from a dive operator — a price, an inclusion, a certification requirement — we attribute it as the operator’s claim rather than presenting it as independently established. Operators describe their own services; we report what they say and, where we can, set it beside what others offer on the same terms.

Dating and refreshing volatile facts

Prices, flight fares, schedules, and operator requirements change, and a confidently stated stale number is worse than useless. So every volatile fact is written with the month we last checked it, and each type is refreshed on a set cadence — package prices and fares roughly every three to six months, operator details about twice a year, seasonal patterns checked yearly, and science whenever new research is published.

If a fact reaches its refresh date before we’ve re-checked it, the page keeps showing it with its original date visible rather than blanking it out. A dated 2026 price you can sanity-check beats an empty space. Seasonal and scientific facts change slowly; prices change fastest, so treat any figure as a planning starting point and reconfirm the current number with the operator or airline when you book.

Corrections

When we get something wrong, we fix it in place. For a material error — a wrong price, an incorrect requirement, a misstated fact that could affect your planning — we add a short dated note to the page recording what changed and when. Minor copy tidying doesn’t get a note. We update a page’s “updated” date only for substantive changes, never to chase freshness signals.

If you spot an error, tell us at admin@fuvahmulahtigersharks.com and we’ll check it.

How we use AI

We’ll be plain about this: drafts here are AI-assisted. We build a sourced research base from the material above, then use AI to help turn it into clear first-draft copy. Every draft is then reviewed and edited by a person before it publishes — facts are checked against sources, numbers are verified, and anything that can’t be sourced is rewritten as an honest range or cut. AI helps us write faster; it doesn’t decide what’s true, and nothing publishes unreviewed.

Independence

Nothing paid influences a word of this guide. There are no ads, no sponsored content, and no affiliate links anywhere on the site today — we earn no commission when you book, and no operator can pay to appear, rank higher, or soften a comparison. We compare operators on the fields that matter to you, never by who pays.

If that ever changes — if a page one day carries an affiliate link or a sponsored mention — that page will disclose it openly, right where it appears. Independence is the whole reason this guide is worth reading, so we’d rather say it plainly than let you wonder.

What we never publish

A few lines we won’t cross, because they’re where travel writing usually goes wrong:

• We don’t promise you’ll see a shark. Tiger shark encounters at Fuvahmulah are unusually reliable, and we back that with data — but wild animals are wild, and a sighting is never a certainty.
• We don’t state safety absolutes we can’t attribute. Claims about the safety record are tied to a source or written as what’s actually known, not asserted as blanket reassurance.
• We don’t invent data. A fact we don’t have is a fact a page doesn’t state; we write around the gap with what’s true rather than filling it with a plausible guess.

Questions about how we work? Email admin@fuvahmulahtigersharks.com.