Thursday, October 11, 2012

Shark diving

Today we were picked up at 5 to go shark diving. Apparently they are more active in the mornings. It took 2 hrs to get here, at gansbaai, sa. After a quick safety briefing (basically, don't stick your appendages out of the cage) we took off. Once out there we put our wetsuits on and hopped right into the cage. They baited the water and stuck some tuna out there. Then they yell "down" and your hold your breath and hang on to the hand rails and watch the sharks go by. They are huge. Even the small ones are huge. Since there were only 6 of us on the boat and one person didn't want to be down, we got to stay in the cage the entire time. Then we got out, and was so glad that we had nurses on board who were wise enough to bring zofran. We are definitely land people and the swells were getting to us. I would have grabbed a few shots of the sharks or the seals on dyer island but Dallas and I were both too busy staying in one spot trying not to puke. We do have a video instead. I'm usually anti video of the gimmicks but we needed proof.

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