If you see a shark approaching you, be sure to make eye contact with it.” As someone who’s never once seen a shark in person, this is troubling advice. I have to look at the shark? In the eyes? I have trouble doing that when I’m talking to strangers. My head is racing. I can’t […]
Cure your Monday blues with episode 16 of the “Have Aloha Will Travel” podcast. You read that right, 16! Cat and Kevin are on the mics to talk to a very special guest, Andriana Fragola, who works for One Ocean Diving—a research program on the North Shore of Oahu that offers cage-free shark diving tours to
Last week, I had the opportunity to swim with sharks, sans cage, with research and conservation group One Ocean Diving. And although the activity is truly magical, it’s also, as you would probably guess, a nerve-racking experience. To further illustrate my personal emotional rollercoaster, here are some notes I’d taken of my internal monologue and feelings
The video that went viral over the weekend for Hawaii wasn’t beaches and palm trees, it was a swimmer’s greatest fear—a huge great white shark. And beside it, close enough to touch, a slim woman clad in a full-body wetsuit who’s dwarfed by the bulk of the shark, which is also clearly pregnant. This particular
