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Sharks and facing fears

Posted by Fiona Veitch Smith on 27 Mar 2009

It was five in the morning and I was waiting outside my holiday house in Cape Town for a taxi. I hadn't slept much the night before, or indeed the night before that. When I did manage to nod off, I was haunted by dreams of giant sharks tearing my limbs off and I would wake up, gasping for breath, believing I was drowning in a sea of blood...

So where was I going on this crisp spring morning? Great White Shark cage diving, of course. The other passenger in the taxi – a newlywed whose wife had chickened out at the last minute – and I spent most of the three hour drive to Gansbaai in silence, trying to reclaim lost sleep and mulling over our respective phobias.

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