Expedition Great White Page #2

there's big guns around

and masked people,

you know.

What in the world's

going to happen here?

And the one guy rolls in

with his gun and he's got

his mask on.

One of the most, like

intimidating guys on the

boat and one of our mates

Brandon walks over and

he's like "any of you

guys want a cigarette.

And the guy who was the

scariest guy of all is

like "yeah" and he just

pulls down his mask and

starts smoking

a cigarette.

I was like, 'Classic.

We're good.

Anytime they come you just

kind of, I don't know,

you clean up.

And I said to the

guys, like, hey,

man if you want it and we

have it you can have it

you know.

You need some food.

You need some fuel.

Whatever we carry so many

supplies on the ship.

necessita mas bebidas?

gasolina?

Agua?

Comeda?

Tequila?

SOLDIER:
Muchachas?

CHRIS:
No muchachas.

No tenemos este.

And so the guys they left

us and they cruise off

heading back to

their Navy station.

Alright, that

went very well.

Very well.

I'm excited about how that

went because it never goes

that easy.

Ever!

And then they turned

around and came back like,

oh here they're

coming back, like no,

I knew it went too well

and the guys cruise up

here and they're like "Do

you guys got any limes?"

I'm like. Yes you can have

evey lime you want.

And we gave them

a bag of limes

And they took off

and went away.

NARRATOR:
Time to get

back to the business at

hand...Their bold mission

to understand and protect

one of the world's most

mysterious creatures,

the great white.

DOMEIER:
I think it's

really important that the

public knows that sharks

occupy a very important

niche in our

marine ecosystem.

They are predators, they

are the garbage men,

they do a lot of things

that no other fish do.

If we lose sharks, our

marine ecosystem's going

to change and it's going

to change for the worse.

NARRATOR:
Though Domeier

and Fischer share the

mission, they sometimes

differ on how to hook a

Great White.

CHRIS:
I would

I'd throw it on.

Whatever.

I'd put that piece on.

DOMEIER:
I don't want to

bury the business end of

the hook.

CHRIS:
Yo, feed her this.

We need more

meat on the hook.

DOMEIER:
There it is

right on the bait.

Right on the bait and

that's not a small,

small one.

It's still a big,

big, big fish.

CHRIS:
Oh my,

oh my, oh my,

have we had our

chances today.

PAUL:
Not over yet.

CHRIS:
No, no there's

the shark right there.

That's a monster

shark right there.

Deep.

That's a, oh, she's

turning hard on it.

She looked hard at it.

PAUL:
Yeah she did.

NARRATOR:
The shark

passes and Chris grows

impatient.

CHRIS:
I would

suggest more meat.

But.... If we don't get

bit, we don't got nothing.

PAUL:
So stake it on.

CHRIS:
He's not, I'm

going to wait and let him

continue to struggle for

awhile until he loses his

patience and then I'm

going to pile them on the

hook and chuck

it when he quits.

He'll give up in

a little while.

You got to give it

something that it really

wants.

Something that's like

worth the effort.

NARRATOR:
After almost an

hour and a half -Chris

steps in to do it his way.

CHRIS:
I'm just going to

do a little simple pinning

of bait right now.

My theory is to make it

look so good that it has

to eat it.

It's worth the little bit

of risk that doesn't look

.

Sometimes when they don't

want to bite you got to

give them something

they can't resist.

I'm already bit.

WHITEY:
Yeah he got it.

CHRIS:
That's

why I did it,

right the (bleep) there.

WHITEY:
Ah there you go.

CHRIS:
Tell me when the,

tell me when buoys ...

WHITEY:
Yeah, right there.

Came off.

Well I'm not sure he, I'm

not sure he came off.

No way.

DOMEIER:
Still got bait.

DOMEIER:
She's

right behind it.

She wants it.

DOMEIER:
Can't

see her now.

WHITEY:
She's gonna

take that again Chris.

She's takin' it

again, look at that!

DOMEIER:
There,

she's got it.

JODY:
She's

runnin' forward.

WHITEY:
Heads

up, heads up!

Heads up!

DOMEIER:
Woah!

Look at that!

WHITEY:
The, buoy!

Now we got the other rope!

DOMEIER:
WOW!

Look at that.

Wooooo!

WHITEY:
Buoy!

PAUL:
It's a

big one, dude!

CHRIS:
That's the

bitter end, Brett.

JODY:
Oh no.

CHRIS:
Oh, no she's still

holding down buoys.

JODY:
No, no he's got it

he's going, there he goes.

We might not want to...

WHITEY:
Buoy!

Buoy!

Buoy!

DOMEIER:
Still on?

WOW!

Wooo!

CHRIS:
Let's go,

let's go, let's go.

Stay clear.

DOMEIER:
Yeah Baby!

NARRATOR:
The game

is on - again.

JODY:
That's

what they think.

CHRIS:
Okay, what we

wanna do is make sure we

get those buoys behind her

and make sure we don't let

'em, we keep 'em

clear of the ship.

BRETT:
She's

coming around.

The fish, the shark's

going that way.

CHRIS:
Oh, she's

turned away now.

BRETT:
Yep, no, now she's

turned directly away from

the boat.

Good.

NARRATOR:
The battle's

just started and this

Great White is already

giving the guys a run for

their money.

CHRIS:
Holy cow!

Look at the buoys getting

pulled through the water!

OH MY GOD!

I hope the hook holds.

I just hope

the hook holds.

JODY:
Yeah.

CHRIS:
Look at

the pressure!

I don't know what's going

to break next but we're

either going to find out

or we're going to get this

one.

DOMEIER:
Two buoys down.

NARRATOR:
From the upper

deck the doctorhand

deckhand Whitey Evans

witness the strength of

this animal.

Three buoys down. Oh,

came back up.

Strong fish.

NARRATOR:
They hope it's

the monster-sized female

they've been waiting for.

CHRIS:
This is the kind

of shark that can kill ya.

NARRATOR:
Early in the

expedition a bad engine

forces the team to use the

inflatable as the chase

boat.

And again, they find

themselves within biting

distance of a great white

in a motorized balloon.

But Chris is more focused

on how they hooked this

great white.

CHRIS:
Nice, man.

See we fattened

up that hook, bro.

Did you see everybody

turned their back and we

stuck that giant tuna on

the hook and we hung this

thing.

That's what I'm

talking about.

PAUL:
You called it

there didn't you?

CHRIS:
Oh I don't know.

Could have been

just lucky.

Probably

experience though.

(laughs) NARRATOR: Shark

expert Doctor Domeier

knows great whites

more than most.

He's compiled a database

of almost 100 sharks at

Guadalupe.

He ids them based

on their gill slits,

pectoral fins and tails

as well as their color

patterns.

Could the shark on their

line be someone he knows?

PAUL:
She's coming at us.

JODY:
Yeah, she's

stretched out good.

Here comes the other

buoy to the surface.

CHRIS:
OK fish

is coming up.

Another buoy's up.

NARRATOR:
They start

replacing fixed buoys with

sliders - allowing the

buoys to glide down the

line closer to the shark.

CHRIS:
Okay, sliders in

front, sliders in front.

Feed 'em another one.

Right behind you there.

BRETT:
Once we got the

shark tired out a little

bit, you add a

little more weight,

or a little closer,

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