Forget about cage diving with great white sharks, this is the world's best-ever shark diving experience: watching packs of bull and tiger sharks up to 4m long being hand fed by Fijian divers, while I'm only an arm's length away.
After diving about 24m at Beqa reef on Fiji's Coral Coast, about a dozen ravenous bull sharks go crazy and rip into the chum. Hundreds of tropical fish pick at leftover scraps and the third most dangerous sharks to humans seem unfazed by our presence.
We are instructed to keep our hands on a rope line that surrounds the feeding zone, as visibility is poor once the bin is open. Pointing is not allowed, as an arm could easily be lost in the jaws of one of these beasts.
Last year, a Bondi surfer lost his arm to a bull shark and a navy diver lost his arm and leg in another attack in Sydney Harbour, so the danger is obvious.
The feeders' hands are gloved in Kevlar — the material used for bulletproof vests. This is the only protection they have from the sharks' hundreds of razor-sharp teeth.
My guts churn from the sight of the wheelie bins and bags filled with chum and I spew up continuously.
We hear a tapping on our tank, the signal that two tiger sharks are approaching. Second deadliest to the great white, the 4m-long predators with tiger stripes on their bodies look like a mini-submarine. My heart pounds faster than Ben Cousins' on a bucks' night bender.
The wheelie bins are quickly closed and the Fijian divers protect us with a metal pole in their hand. The divers, who glide through like Aquaman, are on high alert in case the sharks become more interested in us than the chum.
Although, if these killers really wanted a piece of our arses it would take more than a metal pole to stop them. Two years ago in the Bahamas, an Austrian tourist was mauled when a tiger shark attacked him during a similar shark-feeding session.
Everyone is on edge until the tiger sharks, who have been eyeing us off, leave the dive site. The bins are re-opened and the final scraps of chum are fed to the remaining bull sharks and reef fish.
I watch in awe as a dive instructor takes a tourist by the hand and instructs her to pat the side of a bull shark as it swims by. I'm glad I make it out alive, limbs intact.
By Tasha Vandermeer with additional reporting by Saxon Cheng
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