Amazingly, Chris and Monique Fallows run these trips off
South Africa. The best time to go on one of these excursions is
from November to June, when the Fallows claim around a 90% success rate of seeing these amazing creatures. Snorkeling with these blue water predators must be stunning!
(According to Murray
Williams, who recently went on one of these trips, it is!) Using low frequency sounds to attract the sharks,
snorkelers slide into the water as the animals approach. What happens next? I’m guessing lots of:
camera-snapping, frightened inhalations, and arm flapping as you try to maneuver yourself close to – and then out
of the way of! – these beautiful animals.
I’ve been on a great white cage dive in SA and on a shark feeding in the
[Thanks, Drew!]
Of course, we’ve all heard about the opportunities to go diving in cages with sharks. But what about
snorkeling in the open ocean with sharks? Of course, I’m not talking about snorkeling with a great white –
although it HAS
happened! – but snorkeling with blue and mako sharks, some of the fastest, sleekest animals on the planet.
Snorkeling With Blue and Mako Sharks
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