Over at Gadling, Erik turned me on to Jon Rawlinson’s RAD blog. I’ve been following
Jon’s progress closely, because he’s recently been traveling through parts of Africa where I’ve been.
Recently, he’s been in South Africa, and I see that he’s just posted a great narrative about shark cage diving
in Gansbaai – the same place I dove with great whites in 2001!
It’s a great read, and you can feel his enthusiasm literally dripping from his words: especially when he mentions
that the shark’s tail swatted the cage he was in. If you want to know what cage diving is like, check out his
piece. (He mentions that he didn’t use a reg, because the bubbles scare away the sharks. When I did my dive, I
was told the same thing, but we were still allowed to use a reg.)
Additionally, he also posted a nifty little video blog about the trip, meaning you can see what the boat, the cage, and the sharks were like! Awesome work, Jon. I wish I’d been there with you!
1. thanks for the kind words willy! cheers
Posted at 8:36AM on Jan 12th 2006 by jon