Day 3 - Swimming with the SHARKS!
The picture above is of us on the drive to the aquarium. We had a blast and the dive was so peaceful - YES peaceful and amazing. The sharks would swim right by you - a few times I saw one swim within a couple of inches of SB's fins. Once we got there, we had a little briefing of the actual dive and then we split into 2 groups (there were 5 divers altogether). SB and I were the first group and the other 3 were the second group. WE had the tank all to ourselves plus we got to show the others how its done! The dive leader, Jeff, said that the sharks would come close if you were calm and surprisingly enough once in the water we WERE calm. There was an eagle ray who we got to hand feed clams and she was all over us. She was very sweet and she would rub all over you and she managed to rub SB's face once or twice! Our dive leader took some great pictures for us - but he is sending us a disc in the next week. So, to get actual pics of the dive you will have to check back! These are pics from after the dive - we stuck around and watched them feed the sharks (we thought they would've fed them before the dive - but NO! They fed them just minutes after the second the group got out of the water!!! The picture below is of the tiger shark (the only one in captivity in north america) eating some tuna - if you look closely you can see the tuna in his mouth! My pictures are horrible - they are through the glass at the aquarium - just wanted to give you an idea!!
A big shout out to Sixbit for not letting me back out while we were still at home before we came or for yesterday morning before the dive - one of the most amazing things that I have ever done!
7 comments:
so neat! (even through the aquarium glass!!!) that is awesome that they're sending you pics.
very very cool!
when i first started reading, i misread and thought you were talking about how amazingly peaceful the drive to the sharks was... i thought that was funny but then i realized you had written dive.
i don't know if i would be brave enough to do that! sounds very cool, though.
I didn't know you guys were going to Maui. How awesome! I love your updates. Keep them coming! :-)
That sounds like it was awesome! Good job, you guys.
SB - what's worse? A dive in the shark tank? Or a meeting with bosses and customers?
WE here are so glad you had fun! we had a great first day of school!! Cant wait to see you guys!
abc
that looks soooo fun!!!!! I wish i was there. hope you guys are having fun. Susan sedilo said that on saturday there was a meeting at 4 oclock.me and Becca are on the same team again this year.
xxxxx &ooooooo
C
So fun! Must've been a little creepy to see them tear into the food when you'd just been in the tank!
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