Running with bulls

Pete Atkinson · Issue 8, Aug/Sep 2002 · pp. 9–11

Products mentioned: Nikon F4, SB-24 flash gun, Provia F, Velvia, Subeye housing, Ikelite Substrobe 200, Nikonos III, Sea&Sea 15mm lens, SB-26 flash gun

Readers’ discretion advised... Brandon Paige likes fish. The bigger the better. This tall blonde South African ex-spearo has adult bull sharks for friends. Beqa Lagoon in Fiji used to be famous for soft corals - the “soft coral capital of the world”. Yeah, right. Aquatrek’s 3D dive site will take your mind off soft corals; for good. My brain was totally frizzled by a sea full of giant giant (no typo) trevally and seven species of sharks. Well we didn’t get the tigers or hammerheads which sometimes turn up. There’s no secret to attracting all these sharks, you could do it in your swimming pool. You just need half a tonne of fish trash. No kidding! Two 240 litre wheelie bins, two dive-masters apiece and some huge tubs of whole bonito and marlin steaks the size of buckets, all chuck-outs from the Fiji Fish processing factory. No wonder there’s nothing left in the sea except at Aquatrek 3D. …