White Shark Adventures
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He swam about fifty yards away from the boat and jack knifed for a dive. I kept my eyes on the spot where he did the dive and it was not very long before he surfaced with his spear gun unloaded and started swimming back to the boat. I kept my eyes on him and was interested in what he had shot. When he was about to 40 ft away from the boat all hell broke loose when he disappeared in a mountain of foam created by the thrashing tail of the great white shark. The next moment a huge White shark tossed him out of its mouth and the sea turn red with blood. The shark much longer than our 16 ft boat disappeared into the deep. He started swimming back towards the boat using only one leg with a trail of blood behind him. I cast the anchor rope overboard and started both engines then moved towards him as fast as I could. We pulled him on board and could hear the rush of blood from the artery behind his knee and Paul grabbed the tee shirts to make a pressure bandage to stop the bleeding.
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About the Book
The Great White shark that is one of the most feared and completely misunderstood creatures in the ocean became part of my 38 years of free diving and spearfishing on the South African and Mozambique coast. I had several encounters with this creature and not only the White shark but numerous of the other shark species were encountered during this time. Since the White shark fascinated me and although I had some close encounters, I never felt that this shark was a man eater but rather a curious creature wanting to inspect the unknown. A swimming human kicking with the legs will attract a White shark and most swimmers are bitten on the legs. All of this was motivation to start a cage diving operation to introduce the White shark to the many tourists that visit South Africa. This book was written to give people an insight into part of my experiences and also better understand the Great White shark.
About the Author
After thirty-eight years of free deep-sea diving, I feel that my experiences should be shared with other divers and prospective divers. My experiences with the white shark along the South African coastline and an attack on me and my son and my later involvement in white shark cage diving for a period of twelve years has motivated me to write this book. I grew up near Cape Town and later qualified as an electronics engineer but nature has been a great part of my life. I retired as electronics engineer at the University of Stellenbosch and decided to pursue the new venture, taking tourists to sea and educating them about the white shark.