CAGE DIVE

On Sunday morning we went onto town for our cage dive. We all had to sign wavers so they can't be held accountable in case we were eaten. And then they gave us a safety briefing and made us watch a promo video. Then we walked down the hill to their boat. Their boat, the Shark Warrior, is really really nice. 

We rode from there right out to Seal Island. It was only a ten minute ride in the Shark Warrior. Almost as soon as they started chumming a great white showed up. He was pretty small and had a satellite tag.

Not too long after that another bigger shark showed up...

Six people were allowed in the cage at a time. I got in a wetsuit and goofed around and took pictures until the first group were told to get out...

There was a good bit of cage out of the water, so we didn't need scuba gear or anything. The wetsuits were pretty thick and really buoyant so you had to pull yourself down with the cage. I tried to stay down as much as I could using my new free diving skills (My record so far is swimming 75 meters without a breath). But the would yell "down" if the shark was coming for the bait and your head was out of the water. After a couple minutes and a couple of passes by the shark, he started coming right towards the cage. The bait roper pulled the bait head just in front of his face, leading him on. And he ran right into the cage, right where I was!!! So crazy and cool. Such an adrenaline rush! I had had my fingers wrapped around the outside of the cage (They had told us beforehand not to do that for this very reason) right before he rammed us. He hit us pretty hard and I may or may not have screamed underwater. The girl next to me in the cage (Who is the one in the picture up there)