ENFIELD, Conn. — For this year's "Shark Week," the Enfield Scuba Shop is putting a spotlight on their vast collection of Megalodon shark teeth – keepsakes that they gather on dives and sell inside their store.
“Happy Shark Week, this is like a national holiday for us,” said Laura Seese, a lead scuba instructor at the Enfield Scuba Shop.
Seese and the team at the Enfield Scuba Shop always look forward to “Shark Week” when the landscape of cable TV channels shows ‘round-the-clock shark-themed programming with highly hyped Hollywood influences.
John Langlois, the owner of the Enfield Scuba Shop for the past two decades, said of their collection, “people can’t get enough of them, it’s become quite a phenomenon.”
Seese, who leads shark diving expeditions with Langlois across the globe, said they find a lot of Megalodon shark teeth a bit closer to home.
“We go diving in North Carolina about 30 miles off the coast, and we go about 110 feet down, and you dig through the gravel," Seese said. You don’t always find them, but when you find them, its an amazing rush because you’re the first person in 2 million years that has touched that tooth.”
Langlois added, “What makes these even more rare is where you have to go to them so you have to be a very experienced diver, it’s technical diving and it can be dangerous.”
Above all, both Langlois and Seese have committed part of their dive expeditions to educate people about sharks and the impact they make to our oceans as well as supporting shark awareness programs.
Langlois said, “We as divers and, we as eco-tourists are trying to do what we can to save the sharks. We don’t want to see certain sharks go extinct and that is why we are saving the sharks and doing the best we can to initiate those programs.”
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