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Now if I can only find an op that offers great white diving without a cage...
That's easy!! Just look up a little company called One Way Boat Rentals.
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Now if I can only find an op that offers great white diving without a cage...
That's easy!! Just look up a little company called One Way Boat Rentals.
That's the type of info I was thinking of. Appreciate you sharing the story.By now I had started a slow, deliberate, non-threatening "I am definitely not the food you want" ascent... Two full minutes - an eternity - from the sixty-odd feet where we'd started. The baitball of big fish and the hunting sharks stayed with me for awhile, but thankfully began to drop below me as I cleared 30 feet or so. No safety stop today, thank you. I surfaced about 50 yards from the boat, then dropped and made a slow, deliberate swim back there just deep enough so as not to be flopping around on the surface like a wounded fish, all the while keeping my head on a swivel, watching for the sharks, catching the occasional glimpse of them still working the baitball beneath me.
All the serious suggestions in the thread are good, and the rest are entertaining. In my experience, unless you were feeding the sharks, (or the boat was), they are not likely to follow you to the surface, though it could happen. My advice is enjoy the encounter- because seeing large predators is a unique treat at most dive sites. When the objective of the dive is to locate sharks, when you do it is not fear that hits, but excitment. Just stay calm, hands and arms in close. It is extremely rare for a person in scuba gear who has not been feeding sharks to be bit by one. If you feed sharks, in my book you deserve to be bitten.
DivemasterDennis
Hey DUMPSTER, how are you brother? That kid of yours getting bigger?
I like that plastic bottle trick. Might have to try THAT.
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