Today a group of 18 of us were picked up at 4:15am and taken to Gansbaai to go Great White Shark cage diving! We were out on the wavy bumpy Atlantic Ocean around 7 am and suited up in our wet suits. The boat crew threw the bait into the water and within 5 minutes there were two Great Whites circling our boat.
The cage was thrown into the water and 7 people jumped in. We were all given snorkel goggles and when the crew member shouted “divers down” we pushed ourselves down in the cage and looked at the shark from either feet or centimeters away.
If we were not one of the divers in the cage, we could watch the sharks from the boat which was equally as neat. On several occasions we saw the shark reach its head out of the water to grab the fish heads we were using as bait. When I was in the cage, a shark just under 12ft swam right passed the cage and even hit his tail on the cage shaking the boat. It was so great to be within touching distance of this enormous animal but also a bit scary because if we tried our limbs could slip out of the cage.
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