Shark Cage

[wine]

I've always wanted to be in a shark cage, and my birthday's comin' up and I want to meet a great white.

 

Anyone know who I have to pay to allow me to do this?

[Jay-qu]

where do you live? Do you even get great whites in your area? I know there are loads down here (they love the seals). If I actually wanted to jump in a cage I would think that I could find a place in a coastal tourist town. Perhaps a place that does boat tours and the like :confused: just make a few calls and ask around

[Buffy]

We have scads of them outside San Francisco Bay (wine is near by), in fact maybe more than off the Gold Coast there, mate.

 

wine: you're going to need not only scuba certification, but hours of dive time before you find a shark diver willing to work with you. I checked with a friend of mine who used to do adventure tours and she said she tried to book one of these once and couldn't find any in California who would do it (its only a "friend-of-a-friend" thing: insurance is a MAJOR issue). Good luck, but your best bet is to get into scuba first and then very gingerly find the "right" people...

 

And his teeth are pearly white, :phones:

Buffy

[CraigD]

White Shark Diving Tours. "Basic diving/snorkeling experience" required.

 

As Buffy suggests, it couldn't hurt to be an OK SCUBA diver first.

[wine]

Looking back on all my posts so far most of them are praising you guys with thanks.

 

Once again, thanks a lot. Pathway spotted, trotting in progress.

[Jay-qu]

Well I dont think that the Gold coast has all that many great whites.. bull sharks yeah, but not many great whites! Down here in victoria there is apparently the largest colony in the southern hemisphere!

[Buffy]

Well I dont think that the Gold coast has all that many great whites.. bull sharks yeah, but not many great whites! Down here in victoria there is apparently the largest colony in the southern hemisphere!

You're right: I was getting my sharks mixed up! Too warm on the Gold Coast for Whites! Not enough seals! Victoria though! Brrrr! I've only been to Melbourne in the winter...

 

Cheers,

Buffy

[CraigD]

… Too warm on the Gold Coast for Whites! Not enough seals! Victoria though! Brrrr! …

I’ve long been amazed at where Great White Sharks turn up. Radio tracking has revealed individual sharks wandering pretty much everywhere, from Austraila to Africa to Hawaii to America. They’ve even been found far inland via minor rivers.

 

Their behavior, and that of other large sharks, is hard to explain as simply following concentrations of preferred prey. Some of it may be mating-related, but I fancy that one might not be inaccurate in speculating that these animals have an instinct for exploration. Surprisingly for an animal that doesn’t even have hard bones, sharks appear in some kinds of cognitive test to be as smart even as rats, dogs, and other animals we think of as pretty smart.