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  • A lot of people would say you have got reason more than most to hate sharks and yet you

  • don’t.

  • Can you explain it?

  • >> It was in a spear fishing championship that I was the reigning champion.

  • It was a six hour competition.

  • After four hours many fish had been speared and each one had bled into the water.

  • The tide had gone out, but nobody had seen any sharks.

  • And I went out a bit wider and deeper to try and find fish that hadn't been scared.

  • And as I dived down I was just about to spear a fish when this thump and crash hit me in

  • the chest, knocked the gun out of my hand, the mask off my face.

  • I was held through the water.

  • Then I realized it had to be a shark.

  • And I felt: What can I do to protect myself?

  • So I gouged the shark’s head over with my fingers trying to get its eyes.

  • It seemed to let go and as it...

  • I fell away.

  • I pushed at that shark to try and push it away.

  • But my hand went right in his mouth, ripping.

  • I ended up with only one tendon left and 94 stitches in my hand.

  • But I grabbed the shark around the belly and still 30, 40 feet under water holding on and

  • then I realized air, because I was snorkeling and I was going to drown.

  • I pushed up to the surface.

  • And on the surface I yelled out: Shark, shark.

  • And I looked down and the shark was coming back to attack again.

  • I could see this great big head and white teeth coming up through the blood red water

  • and I thought: I have got nothing at all to protect myself.

  • I kicked at the shark.

  • But then a miracle happened.

  • The shark turned and swallowed the float that I had attached two or three fish to.

  • It dived and as it dived it dragged me under water and it...

  • I am on the rope.

  • And as it dragged down I tried to find my belt to get rid of it, but I couldn’t find

  • it.

  • I couldn’t find the catch.

  • And I hadn't breathed... deep breathed much.

  • And I was just about to gasp water and drown when another miracle happened.

  • The line broke.

  • It was severed when the shark bit me around the chest and it managed to break.

  • As I came up to the surface yelling out: Shark, shark, shark, a boat actually had seen the

  • bright red water, my blood, and was coming over to investigate.

  • They quickly picked me up, rolled me into the boat and with really great precision I

  • was in a hospital within an hour given blood and luckily stitched up.

  • The photographs that were taken on the operating table and my stories went around the world.

  • People wondered whether I would go back in the water.

  • It was when I was at the Adelaide Zoo looking at the lion cages that I came up with the

  • idea.

  • I will make a cage.

  • I will lower it over the side of the boat in an area where these great big great white

  • sharks habit and I will have a look for myself to see if I want to go diving again, because

  • I loved diving, but I was really scared.

  • We made the first cage and on that first expedition, you know, 48 years ago, we made the first

  • great white shark films ever.

  • >> That firs time that you put the cage in the water, did that cure your fear?

  • >> Not really at all.

  • It helped.

  • The first shark that came really looked like a small submarine with a deadly front on it

  • like a torpedo to the teeth.

  • We thought maybe the sharks were interested in the people inside.

  • But then we found that they would come up an bite on the cage even when there was no

  • one in it and what we ended up finding it was the electrolysis that was sent out by

  • the salt water on the seal that attracted them.

  • >> And so now that you spend so much time with sharks, I mean, how do you feel about

  • them?>>

  • They are a wonderful, interesting animal.

  • And even today they still need help, because people still fear and dread them because they

  • are the last major predator that will eat you.

  • But with education, it think people will understand that we need them in our oceans and of 400

  • varieties, there is only a handful that may bite people.

  • The more I got interested in sharks and the more I loved the sea, I was able to return

  • and go abalone diving all around... along our coastline.

  • I spent 16 years and 5000 hours or more underwater and on those occasions I only saw three sharks.

  • Normally they don’t have humans on their menu list.

  • They prefer to stick to their own food.

  • Thank goodness they didn’t, because along our beaches they could ... there would be

  • a real smorgasbord if they wanted to.

  • >> A lot of people would say you have got reason, more than most, to hate sharks and

  • yet you don’t.

  • Can you explain it?

  • >> It is the anomaly of this fear that was generated and shown to me after my shark attack

  • made me think.

  • Going back into the water was a real relief and I found it wasn’t as bad as everybody

  • thought.

  • So I spent the whole of my life trying to put sharks in a different perspective.

  • >> Because of that experience you had.

  • >> Because of my experience, yes.

A lot of people would say you have got reason more than most to hate sharks and yet you

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鯊魚襲擊倖存者如何發明籠式潛水? (How a Shark Attack Survivor Invented Cage Diving)

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