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A friend of mine has just returned from cage diving with great white sharks in South Africa. here are some of her pictures:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=9929&l=75b3f&id=706745880
i wanna go now...:D
me wanna go too, surprisingly, so does my wiffe... Conemplating it for her fortieth
looks good to me, i'd love to do this. :)
Yon "cage" looks a bit heath robinson :eek:
Yon "cage" looks a bit heath robinson :eek:
the thin wire cages are more effective, the wire goes between the sharks teeth & pains its gums.
hmmm, or so they say.
the ultimate cage is made of a clear polycarbonate which is invisible in the water both to the diver & shark.
you can see how this would be more exciting when the shark makes it run at you :eek:
he-he all good fun im sure.
How much did it cost? Really fancy doing this but have heard it is really expensive?
Great photos! Im really wanting to do that as well....
Funny thing though, Jaws was on Tv on saturday night.
gogs
I did this in January.
I didn't really rate it, which was very strange as I had expected to love it. I think the problem was that the cage, even though I was inside it, diffused the impact of the experience. It was like looking through the bars at a zoo where, although you might be staring down the jaws of a grizzly bear or a tiger, the experience is dull because the bars separate you from the animal and / or its environment.
I also thought the experience was a bit disney. Aside from my wife and I, none of hte other people on the boat were divers and they were totally hyped up to an irritating level: loads of high fives and whooping every time a fish farted within a mile of the boat ...
I had that famous toothy face right in my own face. I reached through the bars and stroked the steely grey flank. And I managed to secrete not one drop of adrenalin.
Sorry if I'm dragging this thread down, dudes :D
Anyway, the universe returned to balance when we travelled up to KWZ Natal and dived with raggies - big, beautiful and very spooky - like shark ghosts .... And the reefs off Sodwana are among the best i've seen, teaming with life, including big reef sharks, mega-morays and rays.
It's so strange though, I wouldn't recommend the cage diving. Save your £50 and catch a flight to Durban!