Cage Diving With Great White Sharks
Doing something truly original in your life, something that none of your friends have even considered can be a tremendously liberating experience. Forget Florida, forget Paris and start thinking about Great White Shark cage diving in South Africa.
Coming face to face with one of the worlds most fearsome predators can almost be a life changing experience - I can testify to that having almost been gobbled up by a grizzly bear! Now that there is the opportunity to pay a Great White a visit in it’s own habitat - I have to admit that it’s a tempting proposition. There seems to be a derth of operators offering an experience of this nature so I was quite pleased to drop onto a web site - appropriately called Big Animals.
They summarise some intriguing encounters as follows:
“Overwhelmed was my first reaction when I witnessed “Air Jaws” for the first time (as recently seen on the Discovery Channel). I was not able to fathom the action and the lightning speed by which the Great White Shark was airborne a full 15 feet out of the water and only 18 feet away from my lens. For the first time I froze and was fixated on the awesome and unbelievable event folded in front of my experienced eyes in the last three seconds.”
“We’d planned on a long wait but the action had already started when we arrived. Adrenaline pumping, I was over the side and into the cage in about a minute. Visibility was 50 feet in all directions; clear green on one side and rich blue on the other. Another bait line was flung from the boat to land directly in front of the cage. A big white shark hit it almost immediately. As I fought to frame the shark in my viewfinder, the cage started shaking violently and I was knocked to my knees. All I could see was this massive body churning the sea into a frenzy as it attacked the bait again.”
Sounds awesome.
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