A DAREDEVIL dived in shark-infested waters at an Ellesmere Port aquarium.
Author, adventurer and marathon runner Rosie Swale-Pope carried out her latest feat on Friday at Blue Planet Aquarium, Cheshire Oaks.
The fearless 64-year-old completed the challenge as part of her latest fundraising endeavours, to complete 101 extreme activities.
Blue Planet’s dive officer Kelly Timmins said: “Rosie is an incredible and truly inspirational woman who has overcome extraordinary challenges through her sheer strength of character.
“She has successfully raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for a huge range of charities and good causes and it was a pleasure and a privilege to help her fulfil her latest challenge.”
Based in Tenby, Wales, Rosie was the first woman to sail single-handed across the Atlantic in a small boat.
In addition, she has trekked 3,000 miles on horseback alone across Chile and successfully completed a five year round-the-world run, raising more than £250,000 in the process for charity.
Last year she completed 26 marathons in 26 days and has been described by The Sunday Times as ‘somewhere between Jilly Cooper and Ranulph Fiennes...an archetypal British survivor’.
Ms Timmins added: “I’m sure she will take the experience of diving with sharks in her stride and, to be honest, I’m not sure who was the more nervous – her or the sharks.”
In addition to the sharks and rays the aquarium is also home to about 1,500 fish including pufferfish, moray eels, trevally and triggerfish.