Sentences with phrase «swimming with the sharks when»

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Even with the weight savings, scientists believed that sharks were either negatively or neutrally buoyant — tending to sink or stay in the same spot when they stopped swimming.

But the biggest treat arrived while I was snorkeling afterwards, when I was treated to a swim with a whale shark — a filter feeder, not a predator — so close that our local guide, Diego, could pet its dorsal fin (I have my limits).

My love for Mexico explodes when I think of cenotes, swimming with turtles, swimming with whale sharks, galavanting in the turquoise waters of Isla Mujeres and visiting the Plastic Bottle Floating Island.

And other than swimming with man - eating sharks, most people get their adrenaline rush there by hang gliding or scaling table mountain, but whatever that rope bridge is at 0:32, I am sure it will help deliver whatever internal chemicals one receives when performing any sort of death - defying activity — no climbing or flying gear needed.

So on this day, we were walking along the very quiet, almost private beach when we were approached by a woman who simply asked if we would like to swim with sharks.

The waters close to the shore are filled with beautiful tropical fish and we had only been in the water a few minutes when we spotted baby sharks swimming only a few meters from the shore.

This is not an easy question, but here are some memorable moments in chronological order from the last 15 years: skydiving and hitchhiking across New Zealand, scuba diving the Great Barrier Reef, the first moment I stepped foot in Asia, hiking to Everest Base Camp, cliff diving into Lake Atitlan, climbing Mount Sinai in Egypt, meeting (what I thought were) the friendliest people in the world in Iran, traveling to remote areas of Iraq and Pakistan, sleeping in the Golden Temple in India, swimming with whale sharks in the Philippines, getting married in Greece, and going to Japan with my wife when she was pregnant with our first child.

When the water is clear you can see them swimming around along with fish, leopard sharks, dolphins, and seals.

There is little doubt that if (and when) Nyad completes her record - setting swim, she does not want it tainted with controversy over the killing of sharks that were seen as a threat.