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Isla de Guadalupe, Mexico |
(Click on any photo to open a larger version in a new window, or, go here for even more photos.) | ||
 A shark in silhouette |
Our days were spent rotating in and out of the shark cages. There were 16 passengers on the boat, and the two cages held four persons each. So we typically had an hour+ in the cage and then an hour+ out of the cage. By the middle of the second day people wanted more time to rest out of the cage, so it turned into people staying in the cage pretty much as long as they wanted. There was also a 2-person submersible cage that we were able to go in. You'd get in the cage at the surface, and a crane on the boat would lower it 30 or 35 feet below the surface. There was no top to this cage, only the wires attaching it to the crane. My favourite part of the trip was sitting atop the cage, with my feet wrapped around the bars for stability, and watching the sharks swim around me without any barriers between us. I felt like I was actually swimming with them. To be in the water like that with a large apex predator is such an incredible feeling! Those two submersible cage dives really made the trip for me. Over the course of two and a half days, I took about 1300 photographs! I really wanted to make sure this experience was well-documented, and using an SLR camera made all the difference. Sometimes things happened so quickly that you really needed a camera that would be able to focus and fire off a shot or six, and the point and shoot cameras just can't perform that way. It was well worth the hassle of dragging that equipment around. |
 Sharks at the cages |
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 Circling under the boat |
 Notice the lack of barrier between me and the shark | ||
 Sometimes the action happened quickly... |
 ...so I just pointed the camera... |
 ...held down the shutter release... |
 ...and hoped the photos came out |
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