We're gonna need a bigger boat....

All the bad things that Julia and I endured while we were in Cape Town led to this great moment diving with Great White Sharks. I may be terrified to swim in places where I can't see what's below me, but for some strange reason I have always wanted to go cage diving with great whites. And Julia is absolutely obsessed with all kinds of sharks, so we got lucky enough to go out with Chris Fallows and his team (they shot the footage you see on Planet Earth) and see these beasts in the wild!

There is an island off Simon's town on the Cape pennisula where seals go to breed every year. This makes this area very popular with great whites since they love some delicious seal. So the day that we went was one of the first days of the breaching season. Breaching is when the sharks chase after the seals and leap out of the water. Unfortunately, the breaching didn't happen the morning we went out but we got to see a shark feeding on an already dead seal (they will scavenge for an easy meal) and we had 3 others come over an check out the boat.

Chris Fallows doesn't chum the waters to attract the sharks, but he put out a large chunk of tuna and a carpet cutout of a seal. Great Whites are very curious creatures and like to come over and check things out. They pretty much ignored the tuna, were very interested in the seal cutout and responded to the vibrations sent out when a pole was banged against the deck.

More to come...