Diving with sharks at Atlantis The Palm Dubai
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00:00And I'm ready to go. Ready for my dive!
00:07In a few minutes we'll give you all your equipment. There's some changing rooms just over in the corner.
00:12Just for your information, everything is sanitized. All the changing rooms have been sanitized, including this area here.
00:19And the equipment that you're going to be using today.
00:30It may look like a scene out of the movie Jaws, but scuba diving with sharks at the Ambassador Lagoon is actually pretty safe.
00:48The gigantic aquarium is home to stingrays, sharks, and thousands of different species of fish.
00:54The Ambassador Lagoon is an 11 million liter marine habitat and one of the largest aquariums in the world.
01:01It is also the largest open-air aquarium in Africa and the Middle East at just over 3 million gallons of water.
01:09This habitat focuses on marine life found in the local waters of the Arabian Gulf,
01:14including different types of sharks like the zebra shark, the gray reef shark, bow mouth guitar shark, the white tip reef shark, the black tip reef shark, and the Arabian carpet shark.
01:26Gulf News went down to try out the Atlantis Dive Explorer, which is a 30 minute dive session where I came face to face with sharks, rays, and fish.
01:35It was a rare and beautiful experience diving alongside incredible sea creatures.
01:45Yay! This was great!
01:49So I just completed my 30 minute dive in the Lost Chambers Aquarium where there are so many different species of fish, shark, and stingray.
01:59And it was a very overwhelmingly beautiful experience, something that anyone who is a diving enthusiast and who loves experiencing new things should do when they're in Dubai.
02:13The sharks were swimming all around me. The stingrays were not nervous at all. They came up to me. They said hello.
02:21Some even touched my head, which made me a little bit nervous, but to be honest, I think it was part of the experience.
02:27And I was too busy worrying that I was diving correctly, that I wasn't so scared, I guess, of the fish.
02:34They are fed very well and it's a very safe environment and a great way for me to sort of dive again.
02:41I'm really looking forward to diving again and I hope that I can do it here because it was just perfect.