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Join Incredible Adventures  for
a great white shark adventure in San
Francisco and you may spot Director of West Coast Shark Operations
Greg Barron doing a lot of
scribbling in a notebook. Greg has been collecting detailed trip
data since 2006, with hope his observations may lead to a greater understanding
of white sharks.
Some of his observations are a tad more graphic than we care to read,
like this October 2009 log entry:
9:20 am - Predation at starboard stern. Shark hit seal subsurface,
seal hit surface and had been laid open. Intestines trailing. Shark
surfaced and thrashed. Large blood stain at surface. Seal swam/drifted
into shallow water SW of Point. Probably made it to beach. As I watched
it drift in, did not see shark come back after initial strike. Predation
2 min or less.
According to Ralph Collier, head of the non-profit Shark
Research Committee, he's learned more about sharks from the stories
told to him by fishermen and other observers, than he has from any book.
 Join
Incredible Adventures for a day at the Farallones
and you'll be another valuable set of eyes observing shark, seal and
seabird activity at the islands.
This year's shark season begins Saturday, September 24th and continues
on select dates through mid-November. Cage dives remain $875 and topside
viewing is $375. For complete details, visit our website
or contact us by phone or email.
On January 15th, a father and son experienced a day they'll not soon
forget. On a private Bahamas
Shark Adventure led by our favorite shark girl, Jillian Morris,
they got to meet more than 15 lemon sharks and one very large tiger
shark.
 
 
The two stayed at Old
Bahama Bay Resort, on Grand Bahama Island's West End. While you
aren't required to stay at the resort when you join IA for a tiger shark
dive, we highly recommend it. It's a beautiful place and our shark
dives depart from the Old
Bahama Bay Marina. Plus, resort manager Nathan Moody is a great
guy. He's helped out tremendously with our Bahamas shark adventures
and we know he goes out of his way to make a guest's stay on Grand Bahama
wonderful.
Our next Bahamas Shark Dive Adventure at
Tiger Beach is set for Saturday, February 26th. The cost to cage
dive is $875 and topsiders pay $375. For more information, contact us.
 You
may remember Shinya from a previous
newsletter. He's the taxi driver from Japan who flew a MiG-29
to the edge of space in December.
You've already seen his photos.
Now, you can see
his video. He's posted great footage from his day as a MiG pilot
on YouTube. Click
here to view great flight footage, then pick up the phone and call
Greg to schedule your own Russian flying adventure.
(Please.)
 It's
another MAKS
air show year! Every other year, a huge international air
show takes place outside Moscow at Zhukovsky Air Base, the former home
of our MiG flying adventures in Russia.
This year, the incredible aviation event is celebrating its 10th Anniversary.
Greg is putting together some great airshow packages for those who
want to catch a day or two of the MAKS excitement before taking off
for the edge of space in a MiG. The biggest days of the week-long show
are August 20th and 21st. Contact
him for details.
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 Space
fans may want to pre-order a copy of "Life
and Death on Mars: The New Mars Synthesis", a book
by IA friend Dr. John Brandenburg, PhD. The author is a member
of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' Space Colonization
Committee. (So is IA President Jane Reifert, believe it or not!
She's not embarrassed to admit that she occasionally has to ask
fellow committee members to translate "rocket scientist talk"
into English for her.)
At the same committee meeting where John previewed the book,
plans were made for Jane to co-chair a Space Tourism / Space Commercialization
Session at a major space conference in California later this year.
All this space talk is supposed to remind you that Incredible
Adventures offers a variety of space
adventures, including zero-gravity
flights and future high-altitude flights aboard XCOR's
Lynx. (Sadly, no trips to Mars...yet.)
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 Our
Skydive Everest Adventure
is nothing short of incredible. Watch the
20 minute video from our 2010 jumps and you'll agree. But,
if you're not the type to jump out of a perfectly good airplane
flying higher than Everest, we can suggest another option for
you.
Explore Himalaya, our Nepalese partner in the Everest Skydive,
offers a variety of really affordable private and group trekking
programs.
As a reminder, the next Everest
Jumps are scheduled for October 2011. For more info,
visit our website or send
us an email.
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 One
of our favorite alums is coming to Sarasota soon, for a custom two-day
Hard
Hat Adventure. Our standard program features drive time
in a bulldozer, skid steer loader and excavator for $850, but if
there's a special earth-moving machine you'd like to drive, just
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 We
just love some of the comments we get from people after they've
spent a little time in a fighter jet.
"IT WAS AWESOME! Oh man, this was the best
flight I have ever done. The absolute best....Watching the video
playback is great to see the attitude of the terrain behind change
as I maneuvered for the shot. Knife edge, nearly inverted, ground,
sky, ground, sky, horizon rolling, way to COOL!..."
"Thanks for checkin' in Greg. I heartily endorse this
activity so if you want to use any commentary, feel free to do
so. I was telling everybody about it afterwards. Hey, flew a fighter
jet today. Total strangers looking at the crazy cowboy with a
gleam in his eye."
Let us put a grin on your face and a gleam in your eye. To
learn how you can schedule a flying
adventure in California or elsewhere, give us a call or send
us an email.
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