#shark-conservation

#shark-conservation

One of the things that shocks people the most when they learn about sharks is that they expect sharks to be fish with no personality, and that they just follow their instinct.

There's still widespread fear, and in some cases it's quite pseudoscientific in nature. Around the same time, Star Wars came out, and no one was afraid that the Death Star was going to blow up Earth.

"I regret the decimation of the shark population because of the book and film. I truly and to this day regret that," he told the BBC in 2022.

When you swim for 12 days, you leave as one person and I think you come back as a different person with a new reflection on what you've been through.