Great White Sharks & submarines  Great White Sharks & submarines
Spent time off Mexico recently as part of my training in our
Virgin Oceanic mini-submarine, diving with Great White Sharks.
There are not a lot of them but the ones you see are huge, 20
feet or more, larger than the submarine. I had my first Virgin
Oceanic dives training. The sub handled beautifully, straight
down smoothly, straight up 100 feet, bursting through the
surface of the water.    Suddenly the biggest set of teeth were
only feet away from me. Well f**k I shouted! Before realising
the teeth were a reflection of my own in the glass dome around
us. Great Whites indeed!  Schools of beautiful fish surrounded
us, then suddenly the real thing in all its majesty serenely
swimming alongside us. The Great White Shark was close enough to
lean out and touch if we were not safely ensconced in the sub.
Graham Hawkes, the genius behind the submarine, was shouting
like an excited schoolboy and so was I. The Great White stayed
for three minutes, ban