I just heard from my friend, Andy, this week regarding his great white shark adventure outside of Cape Town, South Africa. I had randomly asked him about his plans for the three days following the Lausanne Gathering.
“Anything interesting you’re going to do?” I asked.
“Great white shark diving,” he said and explained that it’s a popular tourist activity. A boat takes you out to sea, where they chum the water, and drop you in a tank (or without a tank if the water isn’t chummed), and let you swim with great white sharks. The terrifying na-na-na-na scenes from Jaws took me years to recover from so I’m in awe people pay to do this.
Then Andy mentioned what I consider an important detail: “It’s really cheap, but I don’t know why?”
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“Well the standard price is about $2000 to $2500 rand, and we’re paying half of that!”
I burst out laughing. Dude, if there’s one place in life not to cheap out…it’s in swimming with great white sharks.
Andy shared with me, “We had a great time with the sharks – super fun and they did have a cage which was useful although it was more like a converted supermarket trolly than what I was expecting!”
Though I’m still convinced if you’re going to cut costs there are better places to trim expenses than when it comes to diving with great whites.
*Photo courtesy of here
