Shark diving has become more and more popular over the past couple years, and it’s thanks to people like Walter Bernardis that we started to venture deeper into their world and managed to learn more and more about these irreplaceable creatures... of which the first was that they are not to be feared, only to be understood.


incredible they are, today we are talking about how to dress for a shark dive. And instead of trying to sound like some kind of shark guru, I will rather approach this in a more commonsense kind of way.


N As we all know, sharks are


predators... and very prehistoric ones at that. Adding these factors together equals a creature that firstly needs to hunt for its food, and thus was issued with a proper set of machinery in the front which makes them dangerous. And secondly, one which has no real ability to think about things too much... or consider life in general. No, they need to feed and breed. If confronted they will either fight or flight. Sharks, like any other


predator, patrol their liquid landscape in search of food, and at certain times mating opportunities. They detect and track them down with some of the most finely tuned senses known to man. Their eyes, for example, with most sharks, have something called a ‘tapetum’ which is a layer of cristaline and basically consists of silvery plates that can either be set to reflect even the slightest bit of light entering the eye (in very low light conditions, such as sunset to sunrise), basically giving them actual ‘night vision, or in very bright conditions (swimming up into the sun to make an attack) the silvery plates


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ow, before I get carried away with the importance of sharks and how


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