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If I get this job in Australia, I’m kind of petrified that I am going to get eaten by a shark while training. Granted there are a billion other things that could kill me in Australia, but I fixate on the sharks as a particularly bad way to go…
Ray, I totally recommend Galapagos. I have been there in 2008 I guess it was. And the diving there is just amazing, we have seen everything except for the whales that are there in different season. We were there in February and the whales are there in “summer” months eg June-August (I am not sure about exact months). I hope to put together some photos sometimes :) The number of hammerhead sharks there was amazing – I have to say, I have never used my oxygen that fast as for the first dive with the sharks … then I got kind of used to it :)
Ray, as a shark enthusiast myself (I volunteer at a large aquarium and dive with many sharks including great hammerheads and tigers), prepare to be disappointed with Shark Week.
Once again, Discovery has let us down, last nights line up was an episode with the Dual Survival hosts, and another show that had nothing to do with sharks.
Lucky for me I get Nat. Geo. Wild, and they have been running better shows all week.
I didn’t know you were into sharks, that is pretty cool. If I didn’t struggle with math I would have been a marine biologist personally…
Always get a little extra spring in my step during Shark Week – AND, more importantly, hours of shark to to watch while on the trainer!
Ray,
This is why I think Garmin should add a depth sensor to a watch like the FR610, make it 200M waterproof, and add the no-decompression tables to the software.
The ultimate uber-sports watch!
Hey, Ray. Believe it or not, some of the most amazing shark diving you’ll do it right down around Wilmington, NC. My friends and I went down last year and again this Labor Day weekend. Tons of huge Sand Tiger sharks around wrecks, up to about 9′. They’re big and nasty-looking, but don’t bother you at all. They’ll sometimes get real close to you, too, but just to check you out. It’s amazing.
Interesting, I had heard that from someone else as well at one point. There’s also some six-gill dive spots just a few miles from my hometown near Seattle, though the exact dive spot is a heavily guarded secret amongst the dive operations that do ‘tours’ there. Never gone unfortunately.
I am a shark junkie too. I actually got a very large tattoo on my back of myself and my 3 daughters as sharks. When you wrote about the bull sharks in the Potomac, I was about to do Nation’s and I was hoping to see one. No luck.
Enjoy shark week.