I heard about this story on the news this morning, and I was instantly captivated. Apparently, a group of
tourists and shark-tour-guide Jimmy Hall encountered a 17-foot-long great white shark about three miles off the coast
of Hawaii . Hall, who runs a company called Shark Encounters, says
he has always dreamed of swimming with a great white. To that end, after about 10 minutes of filming the animal and
noticing that it was not behaving aggressively, Hall realized his dream: he left the aluminum cage in order to touch the giant
female. Hall estimates he swam with the shark for about 20 minutes, touching the animal's dorsal fin, pectoral fins,
side and tail.
What do you think? Would you leave the protection of a cage to swim with a great white that appeared friendly?
1. This is one brave guy.
I don't think that any creature with that many teeth can not be "behaving agressively" I think that a plexiglass (invisible) cage would provide me with with more than enough adrenalin.
If that thing even twitched while I was out of the cage, I'd probably wet my wetsuit!
Posted at 2:13PM on Jan 4th 2006 by mccand