Forget everything you saw in “Jaws.” You can safely get in the water with sharks. Honest.
Hawaii Shark Encounters allows visitors to get up close and personal from the safety of a metal-and-glass cage off the coast of Oahu. Your chances of seeing a great white – like in the movies -- are next to none, but you’ll probably see other types of sharks that are curious enough to come eyeball to eyeball with you.
“At three miles offshore, we mainly have Galápagos sharks, sandbar sharks and the occasional tiger shark,” owner Steve Jordan told me.