![]() ![]() But when I asked him about sharks, I wasn't satisfied with his answer. Fortunately, Mike, a bona fide "island boy" imported from Saint Helena, taught me which critters I could enjoy and which I should respect from a distance. When I first arrived on Ascension, I could name only a handful of undersea creatures but could recite dozens of tales of death and dismemberment caused by the denizens of the deep. The combination of Ascension's equatorial location and the near absence of environmentally-uncouth humans in the area made Ascension waters a luxuriant haven for fish. Thus, I had survived my first shark encounter, but there were to be many more my job had taken me to a tiny, mid-Atlantic rock called Ascension Island. In this case, it was the prowler kept its distance, gliding in and out of the gloomy limit of our visibility before quietly disappearing for good. During my first encounter with the undisputed underwater King of the Beasts, I prayed that reality was different. What do you do when you find yourself sharing space with a shark? The answer in the movies is simple you die. When you finally turn to explore the other wonders of marine life, you find one you hadn't bargained for-an eight foot shark. It's so astonishing to see a school of these miniature beauties that you and your partner watch them for minutes. You find a small pocket in the rocks that's filled with baby angelfish. ![]() The Ascension Diver or Sharing With Sharks by Dan Kovalchik ![]()
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