Busan has a great aquarium with a main tank of three million litres of water and about 20 sharks from five different species. Every one of them has dozens of razor sharp teeth that get grown anew every ten days. Sounds like you want to jump into the pool? That’s what I thought as well. Luckily, it is the only aquarium worldwide that offers shark dives.
The animals get fed regularly, but they are all wild animals that were brought in – none of them was born in captivity. There are black-tip and white-tip sharks, hammerhead, sand tiger sharks (also called nurse sharks) and leopard sharks. And some did get as close a 30 centimeters. If you weren’t diving, this is the moment when you would hold your breath.
Diving-wise it was a walk in the park, with the tank being only 5 meters at its deepest point. So it’s mostly walking around the floor of the tank (instead of swimming in open water like usually). It was special also because you descend on the round plastic tube with people watching from below. Julia took some photos from the outside and they speak for themselves ;-)
