Hi!

A couple of weeks ago I went to Deep Sea World to go on a shark dive. On Friday at school, I said to my friend Emily M  I’m going on a shark dive tomorrow. Emily said ‘Whatever you do don’t get eaten!’ This speech made me feel slightly scared. when the day finally came, I was saying to myself ‘You’re gonna regret this day Abigail’.

Me in a drysuit

When we got there the doors weren’t open and we were standing in the cold! I was freezing to death. I eventually thought we had got the wrong date and that the aquarium was closed but my dad phoned them and they then opened the door for us. I was here with my mum, dad, brothers – Adam and Sam and my grandparents. A few other people came. All the children were to pick someone to take them through to everything. I choose my dad.

First of all we went to a room next to the entrance and the lady there showed us some slides of what we were going to do. After we had done the slides we went to a room where we got on dry suits.

Apparently we were supposed to bring a change of clothes and sadly, I didn’t. I thought for a moment that they would say that if I didn’t have any spare clothes I could not go on a swim with sharks. Instad they simply said we’ve got some clothes you can wear under your dry suit. remember   the only reason we recommend to have a pair of extra clothes is because it is very cold in the tank so we want you to be as warm as possible.

Going Diving

When everybody was finally ready the man took us into a tank with lots of small fish in it.One of the other children that was doing the shark dive was too scared, I couldn’t blame him as I’m 8 and I was scared and he was only roughly 4,5 or 6.And we shall just say that he went out. So that ment that I was the youngest. The man who was taking us showed us how to use the breathing apparatus. I knew straight away that I would find this very complicated and I was right.

Anyway… we all got our apparatus on (it was very heavy) and were told to go under water and pass around a little rocket. Meanwhile the small fish had gone to the other side of the tank. I really enjoyed playing pass the rocket (well that’s what I call it ). You couldn’t smell anything for the apparatus covering most of our noses but you could  get a sniff of … well… like the smell  of sea water when you go to the beach.We got out of the small tank and I was petrified at what was coming next.

We were soon all on a platform in freezing cold water with the instructor telling us how to feed the fish you get a fish and then tear it in half and.. what! I said to myself well I’m certainly  glad that I’m wearing gloves, otherwise I’d have blood all over me!

Bitten

At fist I didn’t want to take a fish but when everyone else had done a few I saw that there was nothing to be afraid of so I took a fish,tore it in half and held it out to the fish around me. Then a fish came up to me and thought my finger was food! So it came and bit my finger! Luckily, fish only have small teeth and it did not hut much. But I have to warn you , it does leave a mark even with gloves on!

After a while we were keeping our eyes out for the two great sharks (most people call hem great whites) and finally one came! O MY LORD!!! I exclaimed I was gobsmaked because I had never saw a shark up close let alone a great white! I was a little scared that the shark was going to break through the platform and eat us all but I reassured myself . Finnaly we came out as our time was up.

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