Or at least tried to lol.
(Screenshot from my GoPro)
Myself and my PADI instructor, Nick, were approaching the sunken winch in Molasses Reef down in the John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park.
We were about 22 feet deep. This was my third open water dive for certification.
The shark was approaching from my right and I caught him briefly on the GoPro. (video below)
We were both kicking with powerful strokes, perfect form and we could BARELY keep up. That magnificent beast was swishing his tail about once every two seconds, hardly moving, but enough to lazily outpace us.
Later on we came across the shark again!
I was in trail when my instructor looked back at me and pointed back and to my left.
I twisted myself back a bit … BAM! There he was!
He was just cruising along, no stress at all, with his entourage, a few stuck to him, the others swimming along with him.
We just hovered briefly as he went by and you could see his right eye take us in momentarily, “just the pair of SCUBA slowpokes from before.”
When he passed Nick we started following him. But like I mentioned above, he simply outpaced us.
What an incredible creature.
This experience created the spark later on for one of the scenes in the upcoming science fiction thriller ‘Distance In Time: Michelle’
Dan Passaro 