My Close Encounter

After noticing on the news that a 4.5m Great White was spotted 50m off the beach of a local perth beach, i began to reflect on the instances where I myself have been in the water with sharks. Only one of them, i might add, i caught on film. The first shark was roughly 1.2m long and was the biggest Port Jackson Shark i have ever seen. You may be able to notice the eye ridges on the sillouette in th picture which is unique to the spieces. I might also mention that this shark has jaws that are only capable of crushing and not for biting and tearing flesh. :P

My Second encounter was in hawaii and was of a more dangerous kind. We were diving at a spot called Coco's Craters and it was on the edge of a cliff face of an extinct volcano. The lavatubes around the base were often long and large enough apparently to fit a 1.5m white tip reef shark. Intriqued by other divers gathering around the edge of one of these caves, i went to investigate, and was rewarded with a shark swimming straight at me, looking not very happy with its home being invaded. Staying still as possible, it swam past me, showing typical body language such as pointing its pectoral (side) fins down and swimming alot more awkwardly. It swam back into the cave and i of course left it well alone!