Swimming with the sharks

Bahamas - Warwick residents Joe Ebler and his wife Peggy Gavan are both licensed and experienced scuba divers but they were pushing the envelope on a recent trip to the Bahamas: The couple went on two special dives in an area swarming with hopefully well-fed sharks. The first dive was a regular group dive about 60 feet down along a wall that dropped off about 2,500 feet, where sharks were just swimming around in their natural habitat, waiting to be fed. “Then we went down about 40 feet and all sat around in a circle while the dive master, wearing chain mail, fed the sharks fish heads from a metal stick,” reported Peggy Gavan. “There must have been 30 sharks swimming all around us in a feeding frenzy - skimming just over our heads, and hitting us with their tails. It was pretty amazing.”