South Africa 2023 – Sodwana bay – Shark diving at Coral Divers

Today it is like a private diving. It’s just our group, with the dive master, Dancan.
It is Michael, Lindsey, Vito, Ryan, Darryl and myself.

Anton and Hangercave is the name of the dive site.

So it should be a nice, quiet dive.

We jump into the water, that is not deep at all and we start our dive.

After a while, I see something big swimming toward us.
It comes closer and closer.

« Oh, a shark! »

 

I’m amazed. If we except the 3 second encounter I had in Thailand with the Black tip reef shark, it is the first time I see a shark during a dive. A few seconds later I see a second shark. And then a third one. And a fourth one.

I look at my buddies, nobody looks worried, thought it is hard to tell it underwater. I look at the dive master. No sign to interrupt the dive and go to the surface. So I decide there is no point to worry and anyway there isn’t much I can do. We continue our dive and we are surrounded by sharks. They don’t pay the least attention to us. They move slowly, so we can observe them closely. After about 50 minutes the dive ends and we go to the surface.
Lindsey is the first one to shout excited: « What a dive! What a dive! ».
« How many were they? »
« I counted 8 of them », explains the dive master.
« Which kind of sharks were they? » I ask.
« Ragged-tooth sharks » though everybody calls them simply « raggie ».
When we go back to the beach we are the lucky guys that saw so many sharks. Everybody asks about them.
Later during the day, the DM shares the videos he took underwater. I can’t stop watching them, they are so beautiful!

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