Sharks are marine monsters that attack anyone who caught, with malice, without warning. Or so we taught in all those movies and adventure programs. Whenever a shark attacks a swimmer out the news everywhere, and start mass hysteria.
few months ago a shark attacked an Australian Navy submarines in Sydney Harbour, and the week after another attacked a swimmer in one of the city's beaches. The coincidence of these two attacks triggered a whole hysteria, closing beaches here and there, taking pictures of sharks threatening swimmers.
This round of "attacks" struck me when I was about to participate in one of those races that I like swimming. The day was gray and stormy, and the sea was so unruly that the last thing I worried about were the sharks. The media suddenly interested in these races, and there were cameras and interviewers with the usual question, "and you're not afraid of sharks?". They did not know that the previous weekend I was diving in a place called "shark point", where we went to a cave to observe a group of sharks. And that "shark point" was just five miles from the start of the race ... Finally had to change the route of the race, not the sharks but the sea state. It was a very exciting race for the sea creatures that had brought the storm, some weird bugs in huge numbers, thousands and thousands, corpses filled the bay, people who seemed some were aliens, and others, following the fashion of hysteria shark embryos, and as they say ... "If sharks are so many dead embryos, how many live sharks in the sea ahead ...?".
The presence of the media of "disinformation" became chronic, there was always someone with camera ready to see if there is any threat of sharks, and even had helicopters hovering ... perhaps to protect the bathers, or rather to be the first to break the news if something happens ... something that never happened. But I was glad to see the news in newspapers and on TV with the theme of "the fierce people (crazy?) continues to defy the sharks." Always good to see propaganda of this activity, however strange it is.
Meanwhile, I kept going in search of sharks, which Hayles if any, and quantity. Last week, on a dive I did with the Macquanautas, the group of divers from Macquarie University, we met a group of more than ten sharks, some more than two meters, which surrounded us while we were enjoying the espectátulo. Precisely at that time had a swimming race, and just minutes before we were watching the swimmers through the surface at full speed, without knowing what was happening below them.
today I made another visit to the Sharks, again with the Macquanautas. This time the shark has come closer, and Jay, our group was so excited taking pictures until he forgot to control their depth while taking photos. Included one of his photos.
Curiously, the shark of the scariest picture in the photo than in reality. Sharks are fish like any other. Should be treated with respect, but good at after all you have to respect all life forms, right?
