I visited the place last month, I did not intend to go in the water, but quite honestly there is little to see if you don't! It was only because my niece decided not to "swim" with them that prompted me to take her place. The charges were 1000p non swimmers and 1500pwith snorkel's supplied for those who chose to do so.
I respect other peoples reasons for choosing not too , but my experience was that without proper equipment it is hardly swimming with Sharks, just a matter of submerging longer enough to have that photo taken by boaters. Would I go again no and I would suggest to others contemplating going, forget it unless fully equipped.
I have seen photographs of people touching the sharks in shallow water, but that is not the case now from what I have seen, a fifteen minutes introduction by local officials takes place before you set off.
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The article I read said they were naturally deep water fish but came into shallow waters to feed on the handouts from the boats (given solely to encourage them inshore) and this made them dependent on that food and they lost their natural way of feeding. It's a bit like the recent thread on feeding the poor and making them dependent so perhaps we need to give the sharks the tools to make their own food.
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