I went scuba diving today and nearly died… Twice. Here’s the first story.
I’m in Thailand currently for a wedding in Koh Samui. (Great place BTW) and decided to go scuba diving one of the days I’m here for.
We went to Koh Tao via a speed boat. On my first dive down. I saw this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bull_shark
A bull shark. It was off in the distance about 40-50 feet away and in murkey water. Pretty cool. I whipped out my camera and snapped a pic. Then it came back a second time and then a third time. Each time getting closer. The last round it was about 20-30 feet away and it was huge, probably around 5-6 feet long.
After the second spotting, I put away my camera and pulled out my knife. This was probably the biggest predator I’ve ever seen while diving.
My scuba instructor seemed genuinely awed and alert, so I was scared. But he didn’t seem scared so I wasn’t too worried. Now that I’ve gotten on shore and looked up the type of shark it was… I feel really fortuneate to have experienced such a creature and walked away from it.
