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Article: Bora Bora for the explorer Group takes advantage of French Polynesian waters
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- The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
- Article date:
- July 10, 2005
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BORA BORA -- Imagine sitting on a rock somewhere below the ocean's
surface, breathing air from a scuba tank and watching a dozen sharks
swim around you.
That was how Molly Clayton, 27, of Bloomington spent her vacation
a few months ago on Bora Bora, a small volcanic island in the South
Pacific.
"I literally was sitting on a rock and had a 15-foot shark with a
mouth full of teeth swimming straight at me," said Clayton, one of 16
divers from the Twin Cities on the trip. "It swam straight on until
it was 2 feet in front of my face."
Clayton and others who accompanied trip organizer Dick Smith,
owner of WildCountry in Normal, were aware sharks would pay a visit
before they made the dive. They ...