Comments on: Great White Sharks: False Bay, Cape Town, South Africa http://travelbeyondblog.com/2009/12/11/great-white-sharks-false-bay-cape-town-south-africa/ A World of Difference Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:04:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Katrina Blaufuss http://travelbeyondblog.com/2009/12/11/great-white-sharks-false-bay-cape-town-south-africa/comment-page-1/#comment-237 Katrina Blaufuss Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:28:37 +0000 http://travelbeyondblog.com/?p=1253#comment-237 Ok- Oh My Gosh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What an experience!!!!!!! Randy didn't know it but I volunteered us for first in the cage as I had read up a bit and if you are first, you are pretty much guaranteed plenty of sightings. That was definitely true. So... We wetsuited up and climbed down into the cage....the water was so cold I didn't think I could even begin to hold my breath due to uncontrollable shivering. They had us do a practice "down" and I sucked up salt water because I was cold and kind of scared. Second/third times down...only fish, no sharks. Thoughts of hypothermia bounced around in my head but I was NOT leaving that cage until I saw a great white. I asked the bait guy to please make one open its mouth in front of me like "JAWS". Then we dropped down, I held my breath and tada - there it was... a HUGE 9' great white shark. It looked 20' long to me..chasing the bait...probably 7' away from the cage. Next shark - big open mouth - right in front of our faces! Looked like it was going to eat us in one giant chomp... The teeth looked crooked and dirty like he was in bad need of a toothbrush. I came to the surface in "awe" laughing and ready to go down again. I thanked the bait guy for giving me what I came there for. Down we went again.... And BAM SMACK - a big one slammed his head into the cage inches from our hands... I screamed - loud... so loud that Randy heard me. I popped up (still screaming) took a deep breath and went back down. I wanted the shark to come back and do it again. The adrenaline was pumping now and any thought of being cold was gone... It was so amazing. When we got back to the dock, the head guy brought out a book and said I should try "the new thrill"... kayaking with the great white sharks. I told him that maybe Randy would but there was no way I could do that as my heart would pump so hard it would come out of my chest! So- to say the least... it was amazing!!!! So incredible. I highly recommend it!!!!! Katrina Blaufuss, March 23, 2010; Gansbaai, South Africa Ok- Oh My Gosh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What an experience!!!!!!! Randy didn’t know it but I volunteered us for first in the cage as I had read up a bit and if you are first, you are pretty much guaranteed plenty of sightings. That was definitely true. So… We wetsuited up and climbed down into the cage….the water was so cold I didn’t think I could even begin to hold my breath due to uncontrollable shivering. They had us do a practice “down” and I sucked up salt water because I was cold and kind of scared. Second/third times down…only fish, no sharks. Thoughts of hypothermia bounced around in my head but I was NOT leaving that cage until I saw a great white. I asked the bait guy to please make one open its mouth in front of me like “JAWS”. Then we dropped down, I held my breath and tada – there it was… a HUGE 9′ great white shark. It looked 20′ long to me..chasing the bait…probably 7′ away from the cage. Next shark – big open mouth – right in front of our faces! Looked like it was going to eat us in one giant chomp… The teeth looked crooked and dirty like he was in bad need of a toothbrush. I came to the surface in “awe” laughing and ready to go down again. I thanked the bait guy for giving me what I came there for. Down we went again…. And BAM SMACK – a big one slammed his head into the cage inches from our hands… I screamed – loud… so loud that Randy heard me. I popped up (still screaming) took a deep breath and went back down. I wanted the shark to come back and do it again. The adrenaline was pumping now and any thought of being cold was gone… It was so amazing. When we got back to the dock, the head guy brought out a book and said I should try “the new thrill”… kayaking with the great white sharks. I told him that maybe Randy would but there was no way I could do that as my heart would pump so hard it would come out of my chest!

So- to say the least… it was amazing!!!! So incredible. I highly recommend it!!!!!

Katrina Blaufuss, March 23, 2010; Gansbaai, South Africa

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