California Shark Diving

Imagine being underwater, drifting weightlessly in an open ocean environment. Below, the water column stretches down to depths exceeding 2000 feet. The water is clear, like a swimming pool, yet there are no walls in this bottomless place, just an envelope of blue water. Thirty feet above, the hull of a large vessel bobs in the swell.

Soon, out of the the distant blue haze a large predatory fish emerges ...following a scent that will lead him to you and a meal! Shaped like a hydrodynamic airplane, and built for speed the blue shark smells opportunity.....feeding time! As it glides nearer the shark's cold, black eyeballs look you over. It circles gracefully. Then its mouth opens and crunches down on a mackerel filet drifting nearby, one of the many tossed overboard from the vessel above.

Once again emboldened and fearing nothing the shark approaches you, this time up close and personal. Perhaps this shark, a roving, wild creature, has never encountered a human before and is most curious. As it swims close, you lift your underwater camera and push the fish gently away as you film. For the moment, the shark departs, chomping on more chunks of mackerel drifting within the chum line. You watch it swim nearby hoping it comes close to you again for another filming opportunity. These sharks are the reason you joined this expedition, to seek them out as swimming companions.

Produced by Bill Macdonald, California Shark Diving takes you behind the scenes to witness divers who relish swimming with and in some cases stroking blue sharks. It's an ideal way to confront fears or to take advantage of new thrills the ocean has to offer. Whatever the reason, California Shark Diving serves up a smorgasbord of sharks for the both the divers and the audience.

A thirty-minute program.

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