Shark Reef Diving

On Thursday, the last day I had in Orlando, we went to Typhoon Lagoon - Disney World's water park. I'm not much of a water park person... but when I was told that they had a place to snorkel with sharks, I forgot all about not being a water park person. (:

So we went.

And had a whole lot of fun.

When we got there we were told that we could  snorkel with sharks for free, or 'surface dive' (I think that's what they called it) with a respirator and an air tank for twenty dollars. Kind of like extended snorkeling...

We paid for the air tank.

Here it is in pictures.
Taken with a super-nifty/fancy/technical (actually, none of those things...) by Susannah and myself - I'm not sure who took which because they were all scrambled when they were put on a disk. Suffice it to say we're both awesome underwater photographers. (:

susannah, excited as we're signing up.

a leopard shark.

a bonnethead shark.

another bonnethead.

 random fish. not the most colorful that they had. it was hard to catch them at the right time.

a sting ray.

people could go down and look out those portholes.

susannah swimming.

me swimming.

both of us right before susannah got out.

(they let you stay in until you had 500 units left in your tank. susannah's tank was not as full as mine was.)

in the shark's mouth.

I kind of love sharks and have always been fascinated with hammerheads. When I read about bonnetheads and found out that they're the smallest of the hammerheads I was really excited. So I took a lot of pictures of them. (: