get over my fear of sharks

I’ve been trying to get over all my fears (not many but a few). When I was younger I was trying to wind surf for the first time and fell on a great white. It swam away but it just intensified my fear so much.

Regardless, I was in the South Pacific and went swimming with white tips, black tips and lemon sharks. I have pictures of all three that I took but here’s one of two black tips. The water was very clear, so trust me they were quite far away and large (the lemon was just.. huge. Ack.)

i went to shark reef in las vegas, at mandalay bay. we had a chance to walk under glass tunnels where sharks swim over you and around you. even though they seemed calm and relatively uninterested in us, i was still creeped out when they came right at us. i’m glad we were in a glass enclosure. not bad, though, as a few years ago, i wouldn’t have even gone near the attraction. i’m glad i took that extra step to go and stand ‘near’ the sharks as they swam near us… yikes!

my fear used to be so bad that i was afraid of getting into the swimming pool. gradually, i’ve become a regular at the pool at my gym. my friend will be in australia for 2 months and i have to say, i’m curious about the cage diving option; as in getting into a cage and viewing the great white sharks from the cage. i know that’s crazy and that i’d probably never do it, but it feels like great strides to be remotely interested in it at this point.

i won’t get over it..