Link: Youtube video of shark feeding dive
Anyhow, they stationed us in a 40 foot circle and told each of us to "Stay on your rock." We sat there for about half an hour while they fed the sharks and a photographer and videographer swam from diver to diver getting images to try to sell us. I haven't bought any yet.
Air temp was 80. Bottom was 78 degrees. I was in a 5mm wetsuit and shivering after half an hour of sitting on the bottom in one place.
The dive was actually very cool. That line from jaws about "a shark's got black eyes - like he ain't event alive," is a lot of hogwash. The sharks we saw were magnificent creatures. You could see scars on them as they swam by. Several had hooks stuck in the side of their mouth, one had a tag in his dorsal fin, and one had half his mouth torn away. Even if they were trained to get the easy meal while a bunch of tourists look on, it was quite a memorable experience. There was a huge black grouper there that was more aggressive than the shark. When the sharks were done, the "feeder" took them about 100 feet from the group so we could scavenge for teeth in their feeding area. I was the only one to find teeth, guess that's from my habit of digging holes in the bottom up here in Jersey.
Thanks for the suggestion to go, it was definitely worth it.
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