Fakarava atoll is one of the best places to swim with sharks—hundreds of them
Gachon, who runs dive outfitter, smiles and slips on his regulator. We giant-stride off the back of the boat, dropping straight into one of the ocean’s most exhilarating–and accessible–underwater views.
At this lagoon entrance, sleek gray reef sharks assemble like puzzle pieces coming together, each animal roughly five feet long. They turn the ocean’s middle distance a slate color with their sheer abundance. “During the day, they are not hunting here,” he says about the gray reef sharks, which are negatively buoyant and will sink if they stop swimming.
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