Vin, bad luck, mate. That sucks.
Get yourself over to South Africa and go out with Mike Rutzen of Shark Diving Unlimited (he is the guy you see freediving with the beasties on Animal Planet). I went out to film a DVD in August 2006 and while the vis was only around 12-15 ft, we had 18 different great whites round the boat and cage in one day.
Dyer Islands and Geyser Rock are only a 30-minute boat ride out from the shore, but there are some big-arsed rollers coming in as this is the very tip of SA. The rollers, combined with the smell of the chum, really gets some people heaving, but this means more time in the cage for you!!!
He doesn't use scuba, you float in the cage with your head out of the water, he is on the flybridge and shouts which direction the shark is coming from. You hold your breath, drop down, look where he said and 'hello, Mr Shark'. Awesome experience.
If you want, you can do the world's only distinctive Great White Shark Specialty with him two days cage diving, then a day scuba diving in the kelp in Shark Alley between Geyser Rock and Dyer Island, plus nightly lectures with movies and slide shows explaining GWS behaviour, etc. Very interesting, and the scuba dive so close to where you've been cage diving is certainly an adrenaline rush!
Mark
Get yourself over to South Africa and go out with Mike Rutzen of Shark Diving Unlimited (he is the guy you see freediving with the beasties on Animal Planet). I went out to film a DVD in August 2006 and while the vis was only around 12-15 ft, we had 18 different great whites round the boat and cage in one day.
Dyer Islands and Geyser Rock are only a 30-minute boat ride out from the shore, but there are some big-arsed rollers coming in as this is the very tip of SA. The rollers, combined with the smell of the chum, really gets some people heaving, but this means more time in the cage for you!!!
He doesn't use scuba, you float in the cage with your head out of the water, he is on the flybridge and shouts which direction the shark is coming from. You hold your breath, drop down, look where he said and 'hello, Mr Shark'. Awesome experience.
If you want, you can do the world's only distinctive Great White Shark Specialty with him two days cage diving, then a day scuba diving in the kelp in Shark Alley between Geyser Rock and Dyer Island, plus nightly lectures with movies and slide shows explaining GWS behaviour, etc. Very interesting, and the scuba dive so close to where you've been cage diving is certainly an adrenaline rush!
Mark
