| Swim with the sharks at Palau's annual Shark Week |
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BY PETER ZAREMBA Feared and relentlessly persecuted across most of the globe, sharks catch a break when they are welcomed guests of honor during Palau's sixth annual Shark Week, March 27-April 3. That's when hundreds of gray reef sharks converge on the sea surrounding the Pacific archipelago to mate, attracting intrepid scuba divers from around the world to participate in activities organized by the Micronesia Shark Foundation. Foremost, this means diving with the sharks, who presumably will be otherwise occupied. "Sharks are disappearing from our oceans," says the foundation's chairman, Tova Harel Bornovski. "Very few places can offer this opportunity to see sharks with such abundance and in such a natural habitat." |
