Go diving with great white sharks in cages

“When you see a shark up close and personal, all your fear disappears. Everything you ever saw in the movies or on TV melts away and suddenly you see a beautiful creature who feels and thinks and has a natural curiosity. Sharks have the most intelligent eyes. You can see them scanning their prey and assessing the situation. Our cage was bumped many times and never once did we feel threatened. It felt as if they were coming in for a closer look.”

“I’d been dreaming about cage diving with great white sharks off the coast of South Africa for years, so when the day finally came, my heart was already racing before I even hit the boat. Dropping into that cage and seeing these massive sharks up close was just as wild and adrenaline-pumping as I’d hoped. Watching their fins slice through the water and locking eyes with those big, black, soulless stares—it was equal parts awe-inspiring and downright terrifying.”

“As we entered the offices of White Shark Projects in Gansbaai, South Africa, we couldn’t understand all the sour faces. People ate their buffet breakfasts in silence and barely a smile was cracked when we said ‘hello.’ We wondered what sort of operation we had run into? Why was everyone sulking at their tables? It turns out, that as we started to talk to more people on the way out to our dive site, our fellow passengers were terrified! We were diving with the most feared creature of the ocean and yet for some reason, I was excited.”