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Summer Vacations With an Edge: Great White Cage Diving In South Africa

August 10, 2009 at 3:14 PM | by Omri | 2 Comments

Are you forlorn because Shark Week is over? Do you need to get your Great White fix? Do you have between $150 and $3,700?

If so, UnrealDive has an extreme summer vacation for you. The South African expeditions company offers a series of one day outings and extended shark diving expeditions for adrenaline junkies and ecotourists alike. Great Whites are surface feeders so simple boat watching is always an option, but UnrealDive puts customers inside cages for eye-to-eye viewing.

The company boasts a 12 year track record without a single incident; no small achievement given that South Africa has some of the densest shark waters on the planet.

There are three one-day trips that begin at $150 and get to a little over $200. The cheapest option is the Shark Alley Express, where travelers take a 30 minute boat ride to a narrow channel in between two islands. Once there travelers take turns in a cage, watching Great Whites snack on the area's 60,000 Cape Fur seals. No diving certificate is necessary, and breakfast and lunch are included.

More hardcore shark enthusiasts can opt for extended trips. The starting expedition in this category is $1,365, in exchange for which you get room, board, and three days worth of shark watching. On the other end of the cost spectrum, UnrealDive offers a 10-night/11-day package for $3696. Here you go all over South Africa, departing from different locations, diving in different waters, and viewing different kinds of sharks.

Medical insurance is included in all extended packages, just in case ... you know.

[Photo: Terry Goss / Wiki Commons]

Related Stories:
· UrealDive.com [Official Site]
· Ecotourism Coverage [Jaunted]
· South Africa Coverage [Jaunted]

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  1. LostOne

    Jaunted Member

    Do not support this

    Anyone that supports this is also supporting shark attacks on humans, ever since this has been going on more and more people are getting attacked by sharks. Just in the past year there have been more shark attacks on humans than in the past 10yrs. They are feeding the sharks so the tourist can see them up close in a cage.
    August 11, 2009 at 12:07 AM
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  1. ecortes

    Jaunted Member

    This is crazy...

    Only true shark lovers and extreme getters would want to do something like this. You can actually do the same here in Philadelphia but it's not in the ocean: http://bit.ly/U17Zc
    August 11, 2009 at 10:58 AM
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