When we went to the Blue Hole in Belize, there were Bull Sharks everywhere. The company we went with said to not worry about them, as they were docile. We didn't know much about sharks at the time, so we trusted their "professional" opinion.
I didn't dive, because I hadn't been that deep before (no more than 80, and that dive was 140). My husband went down with the group, swimming past the sharks. He said that when they did their safety stop, they were surrounded by Bull Sharks.
I spent the entire time snorkeling by myself, enjoying the reef and enjoying the sharks swimming right below me (quite a few, swimming in circles around the hole). I did feel weird, because even though I knew there was someone on the boat, I never saw him for the entire dive (and there was maybe only one other boat in sight that day). I could have drowned or been eaten and they wouldn't have known until everyone came up from the dive.
Later, we looked up Bull Sharks and realized that they are in the top five list of the most aggressive sharks. Sheesh. Ok, I know that probably hundreds of people dive the hole every day, and people aren't being attacked left and right, but it would have been nice to have been more informed.
"Pygeon Pygeon"
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