Sploid Reported: Ocean Ramsey doesn’t ride on top of great white sharks for fun or frivolous show. She does it to dispel their image of cruel killing machines, to call attention to the fact that sharks are seriously endangered. Which really sucks, because they’re crucial for the sustainability of the oceans and, therefore, our own species.
Like with wolves and other large predators, our image of sharks is deformed by irrational fear and hate. The fear is rooted on rumor—scattered news that get amplified and deformed as they are retold again and again. These obscure stories make us anthropomorphize these animals. We give them human qualities and emotions—like cruelty and anger—giving them motive and turning them into thinking monsters akin to psychopaths. And once they are like us, we can hate them.
But the fact is that the only thing sharks are trying to do is survive, contributing to the trophic pyramid that is the base and covenant of all life on Earth. Without them, that pyramid would collapse. Instead of hating and hunting them—based on the stupid thought that this our Earth—what we should do is get out of their way.
How can she swim with sharks without being attacked?
It’s pretty simple: Ramsey is an expert diver, a surfer, and a shark conservationist who understands the behavior of these animals and respects them and their habitat. Continue reading……
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