Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1894 — Divers Don't Fear Sharks. [ARTICLE]

Divers Don't Fear Sharks.

We anchored a little sloop about fifty feet off from the wreck, and when all was ready I Went down. When I got below into the boiler room I saw looking out at me, from one of the furnaces, two eyes as big as saucers. I stepped to one side and out shot a huge shark. As he darted past me he gave me a flip with his tail that knocked me fifteen feet. That knock was not, however, as bad as it may seem; for it’s easier to move objects under water than above. I myself could easily shove a man ten feet under water. Divers often encounter sharks, and huge fellows they seem too. But we don’t take much stock in them. The diver is usually moving about, the escape valve gives a shrill whistling sound, and my experience is that sharks, like other large fish, are scared half out of their wits when we divers appear upon the scene.— [Scribner.