They Called Her Darkness (and she was huge)
How a Bull Shark dive has prepared me for long term travel...
I knew about the bull shark dive before we even left for Fiji. It was quietly pencilled in the back of my mind — like a dare you regret accepting, but pride won’t let you back out.
A friend had done the dive just a few months earlier and I had commented on her post that she was crazy brave and I don’t think I could ever do anything like that.
And yet, the minute we booked for Fiji, there it was circling my head — like one of the sharks themselves, quiet but constant, waiting for its moment.
Fiji is known for its shark dives. People fly in from all over the world to do the famous one off Beqa Island — a 30-metre descent into deep blue, run by marine biologists in a conservation area. It’s dramatic, intense, and by all accounts, unforgettable.
But it’s also… a lot.
Two dives. Open water. Serious depth. For me, that felt like too big a leap.
The one my friend had done — the one I kept telling myself I definitely wasn’t doing — was at Barefoot Kuata. Shall…
