A shark conservationist was filmed swimming with one of the ocean’s most feared predators, a great white shark.
Ocean Ramsey, a Honolulu-based scientist and owner of the marine conservation website Water Inspired, said she created the video in hopes of changing minds and protecting sharks. She has every right to do so: Humans kill an estimated 100 million+ sharks every single year.
She wrote, “Sharks do need to be respected as wild animals and appreciated for their role as top predators in the ocean ecosystem.”
In her retelling of her experience, she let “the shark acknowledge and observe me, while I peacefully and calmly allowed it to swim towards me, and then experiencing it accepting my touch, allowing me to dorsal and tail ride…” She described the encounter as being similar to time spent riding her horse.
She lamented that most people think of sharks as only mindless man-eating machines, but “in truth, sharks are intelligent, calculated and generally very cautious about approaching humans.
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In another video, Ramsey swam with the largest great white shark ever caught on camera. Watch:
