🦈 Today is Shark Awareness Day
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I went diving with sharks once. Me, a tank and 17 sharks circling. Hammerheads on the outside, the rest taking turns.
Sitting on the bottom, I heard my father’s voice in my head: “You can never predict the behavior of an animal.” Then my mother’s: “Are you stupid or a moron?”
I waited for a gap and swam for the steps. Dripping wet, I asked the guy running the place, “So what do you do with the sharks the rest of the day?”
“We feed them.” Cool. Cool cool cool.
Anyway, nature documentaries have entered their IMAX era. Researchers and filmmakers are using tiny underwater cameras, 360-degree video and VR to film sharks in ways that used to be impossible. Nobody’s strapping anything to the animals. They leave the cameras on the seafloor and let curious hammerheads come investigate, which is how you end up with an accidental shark selfie taken from inside its mouth.
It’s the closest most of us will ever get to swimming with sharks. Which, speaking from experience, is exactly the right distance.
