Sharing a great white shark encounter with other divers in a cage is a great bonding experience -- especially if the shark has torn from your cage the hoses that deliver life-giving air. I wasn't in the cage when that happened, but I imagine that it must have been really exciting. :)

Sharing a cage with other photographers can also be a little frustrating, especially if they don't have the courtesy to pull in their strobe arms. I'm coming back here on an industry trip in November that will be full of professional photographers, and I'm sure that camera etiquette will be an interesting issue on that trip. Most people on our trip this week were very courteous and nice; some even offered the precious outer-corner spot to those of us who were more serious about underwater photography!

Dave Haas, with his Ikelite-housed D100

Kaz, in the other cage

Dave and Monica, in my cage

Douglas Seifert peers out of the cage

Kaz photographs Shark #005

Kaz photographs Shark #005

Eric Cheng and Douglas Seifert

Kaz, with an Ikelite-housed Fuji S2 Pro

Ron Yanega, with his own housing for a Nikon D100 (Mike Greuter, in the background)

Douglas and me

Mike Greuter and Joe, from Brooklyn

Perry Armor, in the cage (David Brown, next to him)