National Geographic: The Fox and the Shark Page #5

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or manbiters, as they say.

I'm less frightened now than I was

before my shark attack,

because I've learned to find out

which ones are dangerous

and which ones aren't,

which ones you can handle,

which ones you can swim with.

I think they're beautiful.

Hi Joe

Felicity, Margaret

boys and girls,

many different shapes and sizes.

Come on.

It's my belief that education will stop

this massacre of all the sharks

and the massacre of our oceans.

There's a great upwelling

amongst people now to say,

Hey, let the sharks live,

let's learn more about them,

let's find out how we can enter

the water without

having to kill them all off.

And it's the education of our

younger people now

and I see a large uprising of it young

six and seven years old saying,

Don't throw any plastic in the water,

don't do this,

why are you killing that shark,

why is that photograph

of a dead shark?

It's really great to see that we are

starting to let our seas live.

For Rodney Fox, the past 30 years

have been a journey,

a journey with the shark.

It was a voyage that started

in one terrible instant,

a voyage into the face of fear.

Over 30 years, Rodney has traveled

from terror and death

to understanding and life,

from the early days

when killing sharks seemed right,

to the present when harming them,

even accidentally, seems very wrong.

I n a way, he was chosen on

that awful day 30 years ago

to speak for the sharks,

chosen for a special lifelong bond.

For while the great white would

put one mark on his body,

the next 30 years would

leave another on his soul.

Thirty years ago, I had no idea

I'd be dragged into a whole lifetime

of the study of sharks.

And when I look back now,

I realize and feel quite proud

that I've worked with

so many interesting people.

And what I've tried to do over

that period of time

is to get the respected filmmakers...

and the scientists that know

what they are talking about

to learn more about the great white

and get them to portray

that the shark isn't a bad shark,

that we have to learn to live

with it, and not just kill it.

And I look back over

the 30 years to find

that slowly it's been

happening and working

and all of the people agree

with my philosophy:

"Let the sharks live!"

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