National Geographic: The Fox and the Shark (1985)

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National Geographic: The Fox and the Shark (1985)

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December 8, 1963 a day like any other.

At Alldinga Beach,

the annual South Australian

spearfishing championships

are set to begin.

a life insurance

salesman from Adelaide,

and former champion,

takes to the water.

He sets his sights on

a large reef fish.

Little does he know that

he himself is being stalked...

By a great white shark.

Through a series of near miracles,

Rodney Fox arrives at Royal Adelaide

Hospital in under an hour.

The vascular surgeon there

has just returned

from an international conference

with the very latest

in surgical techniques.

They go to work on the mutilated body

delivered to the operating theater.

The shark has punctured his left lung,

left clavicle, and diaphragm.

The jaws have bitten

through all his ribs,

gouged skin and muscle

from his left side,

and exposed several major organs.

According to one surgeon,

had Rodney arrived five minutes later,

he would have bled to death.

Sewn back together with

over 450 stitches,

he lies bedridden for

two months with the pain,

and the awful memory.

Do you hope to continue

skindiving one day?

I'll get in the water

somewhere sometime,

but I don't know whether I'll go

in this gulf here where

there's been two or three

att*cks in the last few years.

That was Rodney Fox then...

And this is Rodney Fox now.

Seldom has a single event so

radically transformed a person.

I n a way,

the great white shark that att*cked him

but gave him another.

I n three decades, Rodney Fox

has grown from a fearful shark victim

into a shark champion and protector.

I think that sharks

and the shark world is

really beautiful and interesting.

The shark gets a raw deal,

and people just hate it

because they don't understand

and they fear it.

I love to see them flying and

gliding through the water,

and I think that most people

would really enjoy it too,

if the realized they weren't

going to be eaten alive.

This from a man who was

himself nearly eaten alive.

Rodney's life since the att*ck

has been a continuous challenge

to overcome his fear by facing it.

Today, documentary filmmakers

and marine scientists

from all over the world

travel to Australia to go

looking for sharks with Rodney.

His knowledge of living

sharks is unparalleled.

Marine biologist Eugenie Clark

People who hear about

Rodney's shark att*ck go,

wow, he's an ordinary man like

one of us

and yet

he's had such a terrible experience,

and on top of that,

he's telling us that

sharks aren't dangerous,

they're good, we should preserve them.

So this is what's so

wonderful about Rodney,

the someone who suffered through such

a terrible incident

can now defend the animal

that att*cked him.

It wasn't always that way.

Reliving the shark att*ck story

has been a continuous epic in my life.

So many people want

to hear how I survived,

how I stuck my fingers

in the shark's eyes,

how I put my arm around it

so it wouldn't bite,

and how I went up to the

surface and it followed me.

And after about eight or nine

years of telling the story,

I read the original

Readers' Digest First Person Award the

I had written immediately afterwards,

and I found that I had

changed the story a little.

I was telling people

what they wanted to hear,

and not necessarily the truth.

Time often affects memory.

Here the story is only two days old,

and not nearly so heroic.

All I remember is this big thing

pushing me through the water,

and it seemed to let go a bit

when I pushed my hand up at it,

and it still wouldn't let go.

The pressure of the water might

have been holding me in his mouth.

And I managed to

put both arms right around him

and I was looking for his eyes

with my fingers and after awhile,

he managed just to let go and

I managed to get to the surface.

Very luckily there was a boat just

coming over to see what was going on

because there was so much blood

and disturbance in the water.

And they quickly rolled me into the

boat and I had to keep both arms

just like this so they

wouldn't rip my arms off.

As they came to shore on this

incredibly rough area there,

they drove the boat up onto the shore.

And they loaded me onto a

bit of a stretcher, and a car,

the only car in the whole area

that had been in this beach

for about four or five years

was available,

and they drove it out over the reef

with 10 or 20 guys lifting it

over the big lumps

and the rocks through here.

Loaded me in the back of it,

took off toward Adelaide.

It was an absolute miracle,

especially when they unloaded me out

of the boat.

As they did, my wetsuit slid open

and my stomach,

actually, loops of intestines,

came out which seems funny now.

I've got a good friend who actually

tells me every now and again

that he stuffed them back

in with his fingers.

They bunched me up.

Rodney's wife Kay.

I didn't know how bad it was

for many days afterwards,

but by then he was up and

breathing and talking and so,

you know, it's only later

when they tell you all the things

that were wrong

that you realize just how close it was

But everybody in the hospital thought

he was dying

but I knew he wasn't.

His att*ck drew worldwide attention.

Rodney became a sensation

almost overnight.

The public notoriety would set

his life on a brand new course.

Three months after the att*ck,

escorted by Kay,

Rodney began his return to the sea.

But it wasn't easy to

forget his att*ck.

The fear of the sharks when I went

back in the water was huge.

M y first time my head went underwater,

I imagined in my mind sharks running

in from all directions and I said,

"stop it, you've got to control that."

Things would never exactly return

to normal for Rodney.

His love of the sea was now

overshadowed by a terrible fascination

with his old nemesis the shark.

I n 1965, he organized the first

expedition to track the great white.

The adventure became a docudrama.

But danger in the

unknown makes man himself the quarry

of the most savage hunter of the deep

the great white shark

the white

great white death.

Come on you bastard, att*ck.

This is some of the first footage

ever sh*t of a great white under water.

Coming in

now!

That doesn't taste

so good, that wire mesh.

The theme is revenge a crusade to

rid the seas of evil sharks.

Death and the battle's almost over,

a second maneater who's jaw will never

again menace an unsuspecting swimmer.

I n those days, people feared sharks

because they knew very little

about them.

They thought that every shark was

a bad shark

and there was a big saying

at that stage that the best shark

was a dead shark.

The first film

was followed by a second.

"att*cked by a k*ller Shark" is about

Rodney his att*ck and recovery.

Again, it shows Rodney wielding

a speargun, bent on revenge.

Time out to reload.

The cartridge inside the

head explodes on contact.

The tremendous concussion

is transmitted into the body,

k*lling instantly.

But it does twist

the truth just a little.

I wasn't really after revenge.

What I was frightened of

was going back in the water

and being bitten again.

And so I was quite keen to try out

the new expl*sive powder head

that had been invented.

And I went underwater and I sh*t some

of these sharks on file to

show that man could

protect himself underwater.

Rod's on a k*lling frenzy,

intoxicated with his

successes overriding his fears.

This is exactly the scene he

had been in need of.

I n fact, Rodney's attitude

was beginning to change

a fact obscured

by the dramatic film script.

I didn't realize or understand

much at that time but I thought,

that's not the right attitude.

We've got to look at it

further than that.

We've got to learn more about them

and understand them

and learn to live with them.

As Rodney's appreciation for

the great white began to grow,

so too did his expertise

as a shark tracker.

I n 1969, he was called into work

on a shark movie unlike

any that had gone before.

Has that cage been checked out?

Film Producer Peter Gimbel

turned to Rodney to deliver

the sharks for his cameras.

Well, generally, after

they've had a taste,

they start really to tear into things

and really start to be active.

And then you'll let

us get into the water.

I'll push you.

The result the critically

acclaimed documentary,

"Blue Water, White Death."

I n the crew was diver

cameraman Stan Waterman.

The two men would

become lifelong friends.

There's gotta be 12!

Oh, yeah.

Rodney had already done two films

about the great white

and Rodney probably knew more about

how to chum in the great white

very important that,

chumming, the putting out

of what was called burley

in Australia to attract them.

So that Rodney was the natural

man to set up the scene for us.

Rodney didn't have a cage back then.

Gimbel had the cages.

Rodney knew where to

find the burley, the chum,

and set up the boats.

And way back then, in the beginning,

Rodney was your man in Australia

if you wanted to film the great white.

Sorry about you cage, fellah,

wait 'til you see it.

How bad is it?

What a mess.

He bent the cage, Stan?

Oh, wait 'til you see.

The carnage of earlier films

was not repeated.

"Blue Water, White Death" marks the

beginning of a new kind of relationship

between white sharks and human beings

one that allows the sharks

to survive the encounter.

For Rodney Fox, the occasional

filmmaking stint was not enough

to support his young family.

So he took up abalone diving,

a dangerous but lucrative profession.

It would put food on the

table for 18 years.

But always, the sharks

weighed heavily on his mind.

One of the hardest things

to do over that

I was abalone diving

was when I had to return

to abalone diving the week

after I'd been out filming sharks.

We had attracted maybe

around the boat during the week period.

We had them biting

on the cages and taking baits

and showing these enormous teeth.

When the film crew had left

and everything had quieted down,

I had to make my living again,

and go back in the water

only a few miles from where we'd

seen all these sharks.

I had to put on another hat

and say to myself,

Sharks don't like abalone.

They generally don't eat humans.

You'll be okay.

But the first couple of days

I imagined those sharks

were looking at me.

And sometimes when my knee

would hit a soft sponge,

I wondered whether that was

a soft shark's belly

and whether it was biting my leg off.

But I knew that it was fear in myself.

The danger to abalone divers

was genuine enough.

Some of the best abalone beds

were near seal colonies

where white sharks liked to hunt.

But instead of k*lling the sharks,

Rodney and his colleagues designed

a protective working cage

for the abalone divers.

Then they tested it

in shark infested waters.

Watch out for that... Hurry up!

Break a leg!

It really proves that the cage is safe

to abalone divers

because you've been involved

with five sharks down

here swimming around, attacking it,

and they've only taken the hose.

And if you've got

enough air to survive

and you can get up to the surface,

you'll be safe.

Makes the adrenaline pump, doesn't it?

The adrenalin really started

to pump in 1974

when Rodney was contracted to coordinate

the filming of live sequences

for the greatest shark film

of all time.

He had had experience with filming

great whites in the wild,

but "Jaws" was a

different kind of project.

They had sent over a small stuntman,

a midget diver and a small cage

so that the sharks would

look bigger because Jaws,

of course, Bruce was a 25 footer

and our sharks were only 14 foot.

And as we were dressing the little guy

one of the sharks came in and grabbed

hold of the propeller on my boat

and actually shook the boat physically

and it was well over 14 feet long,

and a very strong shark,

and as it swam along the side,

I'm saying to Carl, Quick,

get in the water, get in the water!

The cameraman's ready,

here's the shark,

and he kept saying, No, no, no!

The stunt diver wasn't the only one

who didn't want to go in the water.

"Jaws" was great entertainment,

but the public was terrorized,

and the perception of sharks

went from bad to worse.

Nobody realized at that time that it was

going to be a horror film

that was going

to frighten so many people,

including a lot of my friends,

out of the water.

I had people say to me,

I wouldn't even go in the bath now

after seeing the film Jaws!

For Rodney,

"Jaws" was the turning point

the moment he finally realized

that the sharks needed a champion.

And so he set out

to debunk the old myths.

He started a business an expedition

business taking filmmakers, scientists

even tourists out into

the South Australian seas

for face to face encounters with

the real great white sharks.

These days,

his business serves two ends

it contributes to marine science

and it satisfies Rodney's rather

large appetite for adventure.

Some experience, I'll tell you!

This scientific expedition will drop

anchor in the Neptune Islands

off the rugged coast of

South Australia to find, film,

and study great white sharks.

Rodney's son Andrew

has taken over the necessary,

if noxious, chore of mixing the key

ingredients of burley

a kind of foul stew that sharks seem

to find irresistible.

Blood, ground tuna, and a little

sea water that's the recipe.

Andrew will create

a smelly slick stretching several miles

down current from the vessel.

Any sharks in the area will find the

invitation very attractive.

Marine scientists from the University

of Adelaide want to test

the strength of a great white's bite,

and to identify the telltale sings of

shark att*ck for forensic purposes

a grisly but necessary study.

The sharks must be induced to bite a

specifically designed pressure plate.

First, they need to be worked

into a biting mood.

Ready now?

Okay, drop her in, Andy.

Now that the shark has the idea,

he gets his tuna on a plate.

Keep it in the air anyway,

because he's a bit cranky!

Running tests on the great white sharks

in the wild is always unpredictable.

We should have an impression on plate!

The plate is designed to measure

pounds of pressure per square inch.

That is amazing.

We're looking at the test strip

now and that looks as if...

This one is 500 kilograms,

One thousand pounds.

That one's more than 1, 000 pounds.

A thousand pounds per square inch

enough to puncture metal plating.

But what exactly is it that draws

a great white and prompts it to bite?

Is it the smell of prey,

or the sight of it,

or the vibrations it

sends through the water?

That's a crucial question for divers

so Rodney helps set up

another experiment.

What I hope to do here is

to really work out

whether the great white sharks

are interested in humans,

whether they can actually see

that there's an unseen shield there,

whether they may be

interested in fish or sound

Just to see

what they are interested in.

They swim around and around so many

times the cages without biting

and haven't had any true results.

I n order to test sight,

Rodney will use a cage of quarter inch

Lexan plastic to give the sharks

a clear view of his shape.

An underwater speaker

will test for sound,

broadcasting low frequency vibrations

to simulate the vibrations

made by moving prey.

A thawed tune will provide scent.

Will the sharks show

any clear preference?

Which one will attract them the most?

The adrenalin that rushes in you

as you go down there

and as the shark comes in

when you're in the Lexan tube

gives you a real rush

that excitement all over again.

It's like the first time

in my shark cages.

It's exciting and my heart you can

feel it a little higher

in you b*ating a little faster

as you realize that

you are part of an experiment,

that the sharks don't

really know whether or not

they can get at you or not.

It was quite unnerving really,

because I felt like I was naked

in the middle of the street in the

shop window with everything exposed...

Again and again, the circling

sharks pass Rodney by,

and return to the source

of the sound vibrations.

The proof is clear at close range,

underwater vibrations,

not sight or smell,

are what attracts the shark.

Rows of sensory cells along the flank

are especially attuned to these stimuli

Well, there's absolutely no doubt in

my mind they're far more interested

in the low vibrations than they

ever were in me

or the tuna...

The more Rodney has studied them,

the more he has come

to learn about sharks,

the great variety of sharks

all 370 species of them.

I get lots of pleasure from looking

at the different species of sharks,

from the carpet shark that lays on the

bottom with its frilly mouth

to the nurse sharks that seem to

rummage around and sleep a lot

to the beautiful whaler sharks and the

bull sharks and the silkie sharks.

There's so many of them the mako

sharks and the great white sharks.

All of them have a different feel,

a different way to swim,

a different way of life.

But they're all beautiful

the way they swim and glide

and fly through the water.

And the biggest and most mysterious

of all: the whale shark.

It's not just the largest

of the sharks

it is, in fact,

the largest fish in the ocean.

But despite its menacing

size and appearance,

this is among the most gentle

and benign of all sharks.

It eats plankton, not people.

Few in number, slow to reproduce,

the whale shark is one of the great

and vulnerable wonders of the oceans.

Whale sharks to diver have been

one of the greatest pinnacles of

sharks in all the oceans of the world.

They were the largest shark,

they were a docile shark,

they were a shark

that you could hitch a ride on,

a friendly shark, all the things

that the great white shark wasn't.

Growing to over 50 feet and 20 tons,

the whale shark is so big that it

supports other fish, like these remora.

They hitchhike harmlessly

on the whale shark

and eat the food it leaves behind.

Ironically, the most

visible fish in the ocean

is also one of the least understood.

No one can say where or when these

sharks reproduce,

or even how old they grow to be,

but some scientists believe

they live as long as we do,

Roaming the tropical ocean in search

of food and occasionally, each other.

Now imagine a shark this big

with teeth to match

a massive, meat eating predator.

At one time, such a shark did exist:

carcharadon megaladon 50 feet

of carnivore

lived during the Miocene ear some

It was the largest ocean going

predator that ever existed.

Rodney traveled to South Carolina

to find out more about the megaladon.

He and naturalist Vito Bertucci

will dive in the Cougar River

off Charleston.

It's a dangerous dive.

But this was a hunting and dying

ground of carcharadon megaladon

and his fossilized teeth

lie embedded in the river bottom.

The most important thing

to worry about here

is just to work you way

into the current

and down the anchor line

and then once we get down,

you have to be aware

that there are sharks

and turtles in this area

and an occasional alligator,

and if you do come up on one,

not to be startled by it and if you

ignore them, they usually ignore you.

Alligators, the only danger

with them is on the surface.

If you see one come at you

at the surface,

all you have to do is dump

your air and go down.

And they won't come after you.

The sharks, if they come up to you,

just give them a shove

and they'll take off.

Well, I got my

knee pads on for praying

I hope this turns out alright.

Here goes.

The water is cold. Visibility is nil.

The darkness is decidedly spooky.

I had some incredible images of

monster sharks swimming around.

I n these gloomy water,

a monster carnivore

would be right at home.

Within minutes, Rodney finds the first

traces of these ancient K*llers.

Luckily, of course,

it's the teeth, not the shark.

You okay?

Yeah, why?

I dunno if I can get up

here very easy.

Just leave your gear on the floor.

How do I get this helmet off?

I feel a bit like Houdini.

Why are they different colors?

This one was in the sand.

On the sand?

Yeah, it the sand

and these were in the mud.

You know, when I was heading down

there with you for the first time,

I thought, "what am I doing here?"

It was dark and crazy and I'm pulling

and I'm spinning sideways

on the rope down there and it was only

when I saw the bottom come up slowly

that I realized there was a

steady bottom there

and I thought, "I cannot give up now

because I gotta get back in the boat."

And then I went on and then when I saw

that first half a tooth down there

I thought,

"Ah, this is worth it."

And then I started looking, looking,

and I forgot about all the problems

that you told me about down there

and started

looking, looking, looking for teeth.

And, you know,

you can get carried away.

Down in Jacksonville, Florida,

Dr. Cliff Jeremiah is taking Vito's

fossil teeth and reconstructing

a megaladon shark jaw.

It will be the largest shark jaw

in the world

big enough to swallow a small car.

And it has an entire set

of properly matched teeth.

It has taken Vito 19 years

to collect the full set.

Some 200 fossilized teeth will line

the recreated jaw,

adding almost 300 pounds

in teeth alone.

Shark teeth, of course, stand out

so much that white pointy ivory

things knives against their gray body.

And of course, if you had somebody in

a room pointing a revolver at you,

you would look at the revolver too,

because it's the sharp pointy end,

the point that's going

to cause all the trouble.

Shark teeth are compelling.

It's difficult not to admire them

and react with a shudder.

The only part of the shark's

skeleton that's not cartilage,

these razor teeth are used

to dismember and devour prey.

But despite our worries,

only rarely is that prey human.

First of all, the word shark is such

an enormous pull on people.

Sharks three or 400 varieties

of sharks in the world,

all go together as one name shark

and that spells out fear.

Research was done and shows

that the word shark

had a higher reaction on the

nervous system of people

than any other word

in the English language.

And so the general public,

when they talk about sharks,

they talk about something they cannot

understand and something they fear.

I n fact, sharks are not all scary.

Only a handful are any

kind of thr*at to people.

What they are is

vitally important to the oceans.

As top predators,

they help maintain the entire balance

of the underwater world.

Rodney's fascination

with these great hunters

has taken him all around the planet.

His quest: to learn still

more about sharks,

and it's quest that never ends.

Alright, we're gonna place the mask

on and the way to do that

is to put your chin in first and then

we'll pull this strap over the top.

Here at Walker's Ca in the

Northern Bahamas,

Rodney and Dr. Eugenie Clark have come

to swim with reef sharks in the wild.

On this dive, Rodney and Eugenie

are wearing special masks

that allow them to

communicate underwater.

No metal cages, no Lexan tubes,

just a swim alongside the sharks

to show that if you know what you're

doing, you have nothing to fear.

They've picked a dive center

where frozen fish remains are put out

to lure large numbers

of sharks for the divers.

It's just beautiful to

be here and watch them.

The nurse sharks

are the first to arrive.

They certainly don't seem to be paying

any attention to us, do they?

What sort of food or fish do these

nurse sharks normally eat?

The nurse sharks eat the

food on the bottom shellfish,

clams and any kind of fish

they can get ahold of.

Genie, he's eating your hair.

Watch out!

They're trying to eat your hair, Genie.

Trying to eat my hair?

I really like that, Rodney.

He just stopped then

and wanted to be scratched...

While the nurse sharks

are fairly docile,

the blacktips that follow

are much more aggressive.

That one just tried

to bite me on the camera...

How about staying close to me?

It's getting a bit exciting here.

How many species do you

think we're seeing, Genie?

Well, it looks like three species

for sure

the gray reef or the reef shark,

as it's called in the Caribbean,

a lot of these nurse sharks,

and then the blacktip.

I don't know if there are two species

or one of the blacktip.

Yet, even the blacktip

and gray reef sharks

seem more interested

in the food than the humans.

There are almost 80 sharks

feeding simultaneously.

And for the most part,

they simply ignore the divers.

Funny how when we're down here

with them, the way we are now,

we've both stopped feeling that

there's any danger at all

in the situation we're

just so fascinated with watching them.

I n fact today, people thr*aten sharks

more than sharks thr*aten people.

Sharks are being k*lled

sometimes purely out of

hate they don't even use them.

I n some of the shark tournaments,

they just go out and k*ll sharks.

But I think we're

getting away from that.

There's too much now on television

and magazine articles and books

and people like Rodney Fox who are...

telling people what good sharks can be

and who are living examples

of how, if you understand a shark,

you can go on swimming with them,

and they are not

to be feared and hated.

They're like puppy dogs, aren't they?

Some sharks you can swim with,

some you can't.

It takes some education, experience,

and common sense to figure out

which ones are safer than others.

Silkie sharks, for instance,

are on the safe list.

And with silkies, there's a twist,

as Bahamian Stuart Cove

will show Rodney.

And when we go down there,

you're going to twist its tail?

Yes. It's important when we're

swimming around with sharks

to keep our hands down,

because they do have teeth,

but when they swim by us, if we grab

their tails and twist them gently,

it will paralyze the shark

and when you do that,

you can actually roll them over

and stroke their bellies.

We use this maneuver to actually

remove fish hooks

and so we sort of do the sharks

a little bit of a favor

and we remove the fish hooks

and it doesn't seem to bother them.

Paralyze the sharks

and then release the sharks,

they'll come right back to you

and you can do it again.

Well, I'm game. Let's try it.

Silkie sharks are so called

because instead of the usual

rough shark skin,

theirs is smooth as silk.

Reaching up to nine feet in length,

they inhabit the waters off Nassau,

to the south of Walker's Cay.

Grabbing silkies by the tail

might sound tricky,

but divers in the area

have been doing it for awhile,

ever since they first set out to

remove the hooks of careless fishermen.

That's when they discovered

the silkies' special weakness.

It's called tonic immobility,

and it's a quirk of

the sharks' nervous system,

a kind of temporary paralysis,

brought on by twisting the sharks'

tails and flipping them over.

I don't believe that.

Those sharks are so friendly.

They're right behind you.

They're all around...

It's incredible.

I've never experienced

anything like that before.

So silkies are friendly.

Nurses are okay.

What about any others?

You got any others?

We've got no dangerous

sharks in the Bahamas.

Unfortunately, two weeks ago,

we had a longline boat come into our

area and target our shark dive,

up in the reef area on the

inland sites

and caught 35 of our shark population

and they had different names.

They were like our kids.

It was like having your pet dog k*lled.

And we had a great affinity,

a great affection for

all these wonderful sharks.

Well,

after that great white shark got me,

I really knew nothing about sharks.

This is one of 350 varieties

of sharks in the world.

And you just have to find out

which ones are potentially maneaters,

or manbiters, as they say.

I'm less frightened now than I was

before my shark att*ck,

because I've learned to find out

which ones are dangerous

and which ones aren't,

which ones you can handle,

which ones you can swim with.

I think they're beautiful.

Hi Joe

Felicity, Margaret

boys and girls,

many different shapes and sizes.

Come on.

It's my belief that education will stop

this m*ssacre of all the sharks

and the m*ssacre of our oceans.

There's a great upwelling

amongst people now to say,

Hey, let the sharks live,

let's learn more about them,

let's find out how we can enter

the water without

having to k*ll them all off.

And it's the education of our

younger people now

and I see a large uprising of it young

six and seven years old saying,

Don't throw any plastic in the water,

don't do this,

why are you k*lling that shark,

why is that photograph

of a dead shark?

It's really great to see that we are

starting to let our seas live.

For Rodney Fox, the past 30 years

have been a journey,

a journey with the shark.

It was a voyage that started

in one terrible instant,

a voyage into the face of fear.

Over 30 years, Rodney has traveled

from terror and death

to understanding and life,

from the early days

when k*lling sharks seemed right,

to the present when harming them,

even accidentally, seems very wrong.

I n a way, he was chosen on

that awful day 30 years ago

to speak for the sharks,

chosen for a special lifelong bond.

For while the great white would

put one mark on his body,

the next 30 years would

leave another on his soul.

Thirty years ago, I had no idea

I'd be dragged into a whole lifetime

of the study of sharks.

And when I look back now,

I realize and feel quite proud

that I've worked with

so many interesting people.

And what I've tried to do over

that period of time

is to get the respected filmmakers...

and the scientists that know

what they are talking about

to learn more about the great white

and get them to portray

that the shark isn't a bad shark,

that we have to learn to live

with it, and not just k*ll it.

And I look back over

the 30 years to find

that slowly it's been

happening and working

and all of the people agree

with my philosophy:

"Let the sharks live!"
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