ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how author's excursion to this ludic site both illustrates and problematizes Johan Huizinga concepts of noble games and escape, as well as the idea of risky play as evoked by modern play theorists such as Sandseter and Kennair. How the author, not necessarily the type who enjoys this sort of play, found himself so immersed, in more than one sense of the word, and the playful nature of this adventure are the subject of the tale in this chapter. The story of his shark-cage experience can be summed up fairly easily. At the end, they received a DVD of their shark-cage diving adventure and they had some good stories for their friends. The awareness of role playing and role making is illustrated by an exchange between one of the onboard shark cage guides and his wife. It is in the spirit of this ludicrousness that he concludes his account of the shark-cage diving adventure.
