"What happens if a great white shark comes along?"

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Blame it on Steven Spielberg and Jaws.

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Actually, there are few diving areas in the world where sharks that big enough and aggressive enough are willing to seek out humans, and Phuket is definitely not one of them. However, I've seen one of the gentle leopard sharks that roam these waters before, though they are more likely to make a fast exit when they see divers coming.

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Diving, to put it in a nutshell, is simply a profound celestial experience.

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The weightlessness of watery space and the various corals and anemones sashaying in uniform motion set precedence for the ethereal sense of awe one gets when confronted by other incoming elements of blue heaven - suddenly revealed in front of your Oakley goggles with all its' enchanting visions of underwater paradise.

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A vision so sublime and chaste it's like an extended form of escapism from a Neil Gaiman dream - positively surreal and alluring.

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You remember everything - right down to the small red crab on your glove.

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Diving gives you pleasure you never imagined possible, and as you drift through this aquatic heaven you will understand why the troubled world above is easily forgotten.

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