Swimming with sharks
Back around 1998/1999, me and my best mate went to the Maldives on a Scuba diving holiday. We learned to scuba dive while we were out there, and we told that we WOULD be swimming with sharks. They live out there, in large numbers, and there's not a lot you can do about it. Anyway, we're out on a scuba dive, and we see loads of sharks, who couldn't be less interested in us. They just act like you aren't there and get on with menacing the smaller fish. Time passes quickly underwater, and all too soon it's time to head back up to the boat. On route, we pass a giant turtle. You know the things, those poor harmless turtles that return to the same place to lay their eggs and are protected by more treaties than you can shake a stick at. Well, said turtle has obviously had a bad day, as just as my mate has finished looking at it and swims away, it turns round and tries to take a bite out of his leg! Cue me frantically trying to find something metal to bang on my tank to warn him. Luckily, the turtle fell short of the mark, and my mate escaped unscathed. I'd hate to think what would have happened if it had bit him and drew blood with all the sharks nearby though...

Apologies for lack of shark attacks, but not length/girth.
(Chewy , masticating since 1978., Tue 7 Jun 2005, 22:53, Reply)