Whats it like to swim with sharks?
In Wild Ocean – that’s probably the most sharks I’ve been with in the water. We know that sharks aren’t as dangerous as the media portrays them in movies like Jaws, but they’re very capable of biting you. We think of them as an “acceptable risk.” Sharks are really sexy, cool creatures, and they were more interested in the sardines than in us. Sometimes the sardines or the dolphins would use us as barriers for the sharks. Sharks have very tough skin compared to dolphins, so if one bumps into you, the friction can almost spin you, and you really have to work to hold the camera steady. I bought a rear-view mirror at an Atlanta bicycle shop that I mounted on my camera, so I can always check to see if anything’s coming up behind me. What’s the most dangerous thing you’ve done for a film? A lot of things could be considered dangerous – I could name a thousand of them. In South Africa, a lot of things could’ve gone wrong getting in and out of the water, since there were a lot of sharks that w
