{"id":848,"date":"2011-09-19T19:43:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T17:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/?p=848"},"modified":"2012-10-24T07:17:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T05:17:32","slug":"eye-in-eye-with-the-sharks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/2011\/09\/eye-in-eye-with-the-sharks\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye in eye with the sharks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2-Eye-in-eye-with-the-shark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-925\" title=\"Shark\" src=\"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/2-Eye-in-eye-with-the-shark-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s what I thought as well. Luckily, it is the only aquarium worldwide that offers shark dives.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; width: 650px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/6-Eye-in-eye-with-the-shark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-926\" title=\"equipment preparation\" src=\"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/6-Eye-in-eye-with-the-shark-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1277-Korea-1280x853.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-928\" title=\"Going in...\" src=\"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/1277-Korea-1280x853-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/7-Eye-in-eye-with-the-shark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-927\" title=\"Sharks all over\" src=\"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/7-Eye-in-eye-with-the-shark-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The animals get fed regularly, but they are all wild animals that were brought in &#8211; none of them was born in captivity. There are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blacktip_shark\">black-tip<\/a> and white-tip sharks, hammerhead, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sand_tiger_shark\">sand tiger sharks<\/a> (also called nurse sharks) and leopard sharks. And some did get as close a 30 centimeters. If you weren&#8217;t diving, this is the moment when you would hold your breath.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 0; overflow: hidden; margin: 0; width: 650px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Shark-dive-24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-931\" title=\"Shark photography\" src=\"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Shark-dive-24-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/3-Eye-in-eye-with-the-shark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-932\" title=\"Feeling good\" src=\"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/3-Eye-in-eye-with-the-shark-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Diving-wise it was a walk in the park, with the tank being only 5 meters at its deepest point. So it&#8217;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 ;-)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/5-Eye-in-eye-with-the-shark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-933\" title=\"The photographer\" src=\"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/5-Eye-in-eye-with-the-shark-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/4-Eye-in-eye-with-the-shark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-934\" title=\"Giant grouper\" src=\"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/4-Eye-in-eye-with-the-shark-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-flattr-button\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/?flattrss_redirect&amp;id=848&amp;md5=0dc7c5bece5e4ae92c7d6169779be564\" title=\"Flattr\" target=\"_blank\"><img src=\"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-content\/plugins\/flattr\/img\/flattr-badge-large.png\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-content\/plugins\/flattr\/img\/flattr-badge-large.png\" alt=\"Flattr this!\"\/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s what I thought as well. &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/2011\/09\/eye-in-eye-with-the-sharks\/\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,56,21,59,10],"tags":[177,176,175],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3901,"href":"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/3901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruckh.org\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}