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Researching S. African Great White Cage Dive


I am in the final days before my trip to South Africa to do a great white cage dive. This trip has taken me 2 years to plan and pay for. I have been researching cage dives for years before I decided on my final location. In researching, I wanted to make sure that I went with a company that is more about education and preserving sharks than just a deep sea fishing trip with cage dives thrown in. There was also a desire and need to go with a company that wasn't going to attract sharks in an unnatural way. I have been watching Shark Week for over 20 years and when I saw Chris Fallows and his photography of the Great White Sharks breaching - originally aired and called Air Jaws  - I  knew that I wanted to go to S. Africa to see the sharks jumping out of the water. Following him and seeing his love for sharks and wanting to preserve them and using more natural ways to get the sharks to breach made me look into S. Africa cage diving companies. I got lucky in my research - not for cage dives but trying to order some of his photographs - that he has a cage diving company and I KNEW that is the company I wanted to go through. Looking through the website - Apex Predators  - I noticed that they do both cage diving and shark expeditions. Knowing that this is a bucket list trip and a (belated) birthday gift to myself I went big and decided to go with the Great White Trail Shark Expedition. I wish I could fully express the excitement I have for this trip.




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