Rebecca's Fin-tastic Water Innovators Sponsored Shark Dive

Rebecca Harding is raising money for WaterAid
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Water Innovators Sponsored Shark Dive · 7 September 2017

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I have been heavily involved in organising the Sponsored Shark Dive day at Deep Sea World for Team Albagua as part of WaterAid's innovation challenge Water Innovators. 

At the last minute a diver was needed and I was nominated by the team to go up close and personal with the sharks. I nearly backed out at the last minute, watching the others in the tank from the tunnel and then trying the breathing apparatus underwater made me feel a little sick. However I made it 3m down below the water and spent 20 minutes down there. I stroked some rays and saw the sharks really close (they are much bigger that they seem)! 

It was a brilliant opportunity which I am so grateful for! If you know me I am so risk averse a shark dive would not be my chosen fun but for WaterAid I gave it a go and it was in fact brilliant.

Please sponsor me (retrospectively) to support WaterAid's work and help my team in the Water Innovators challenge reach our fundraising target to be in with a chance of winning the challenge. 

WaterAid help the world’s poorest communities to transform their lives with clean water.1 in 10 people don’t have access to safe water and 1 in 3 don’t have access to a decent toilet. We want a world where everyone everywhere has these basic human rights by 2030. Together we can make that happen.

Donation summary

Total
£250.00
+ £57.50 Gift Aid
Online
£250.00
Offline
£0.00

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