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Would you dare sleep with sharks in this bedroom?

March 31, 2016 09:44 IST

Thought swimming with the sharks was dangerous? Now you can sleep with them!

IMAGE: People look at sharks from an underwater room structure installed in the Aquarium of Paris. Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters

The Aquarium De Paris has built a bedroom in their shark tank so visitors can spend the night sleeping with the deadly predators.

The guests can sleep 10 metres underwater in a glass pod.

IMAGE: For three nights in April, guests will be able to sleep in a bedroom in the shark tank at the Aquarium de Paris. Photograph: airbnb

The pod offers guests incredible 360 degree views. The tank is home to a terrifying 35 sharks.

The aquarium is offering the opportunity from April 11-13 through a competition in an effort to teach people more about sharks, which they believe are the most misunderstood animals in the world.

IMAGE: The bedroom is submerged 10 metres underwater and will be surrounded by 35 sharks and tropical fish. Photograph: airbnb

Each night, four people will stay in the bedroom, with Fred Buyle, a world record-breaking freediver, underwater photographer, and shark conservationist as their host.

IMAGE: The guests will also enjoy a meal in front of the shark tank as part of their evening, after a tour of the aquarium. Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters

Buyle will welcome the visitors by performing an underwater dance with the sharks, before taking them on a tour of the aquarium with one of the centre’s marine biologists to explain how the animals live, why they’re so misunderstood, and their importance to the ocean’s ecosystem.

IMAGE: A diver takes pictures as people look at sharks from an underwater room structure installed in the Aquarium of Paris. Photograph: Charles Platiau/Reuters

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