One of our stops was CocoCay. It's a private island of Royal Carribbean's. It was clean & colorful. They served everyone a BBQ on the island. We did some snorkeling, lounged around, I had a massage on a beach in a cabana...the day was going So well :) After my massage, Steve had asked if I wanted to go back out snorkeling. Joyce and Nic had gone back to the ship- it was getting later in the day and he had told me that Ben & Krystal were out there and that there was a place he wanted to show me that was pretty far out- I said OK. We got into the water and had caught up to Ben & Krystal- the 4 of us were snorkeling around. We saw the prettiest and huge fish and stingray...I realized we were out really far. Which I wasn't too concerned about at all.....then as myself, Ben and Krystal were all next to each other we came across some 4 ft reef sharks.....it made us uncomfortable but didn't seem like a big deal at all. We had just glanced at each other under the water in a "wow" kinda expression. I then swam closer towards to Steve, with my head still under the water & noticing that his was not...I began to see a Shark coming closer to steve....he then came alongside of him and realized he was the same length as Steve....I began to rise to the surface & tucked my legs into my chest....Steve asked if I had seen something and without saying any words, just nodded Yes. I felt really uncomfortable & began to panic.....I told Steve & Ben & Krystal that we were too far out and needed someone to come and get us. I knew if Steve had seen what I saw his panic would have thrown me into histeria haha. In some colorful language....we got a lifegaurd that was on a deck to come over with his jet ski- he explained that it was JUST some reef sharks and that there isn't anything to worry about and took Krystal & I into the beach and left Ben & Steve to swim to shore! After getting on to shore a small crowd wondered what had happened and we told them. It was so SCARY! At the time though...my first thought wasn't that the shark was going to bite...which is weird....i more so just didn't like the idea of swimming ALL the way back to shore after seeing what I saw! As we've been back home, Steve told me that there was a part to this story that he hadn't had told me....he explained how he had seen a dark shadow that had ran alongside of him. EEEK! Just glad we are all Okay!!!!
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WOW. It would definitely make me really uncomfortable too if there were sharks nearby.... although I hear that most of the time they are not aggressive. Paul told me a statistic that maybe you could think of next time or if you're ever in that situation again: "there are more people killed every year from coconuts falling on their head (from the palms) than those who get attacked by sharks". lol Random, but there you go.
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