SharkWater...Rob Stewart's award winning documentary is attitude changing. Ive been terrified of sharks since about the age of 18 when I realised that my love of the outer shoreline swells might very well be the death of me and the thought of being eaten was the stuff of nightmares.
Since then my ocean enjoyment has been severely cramped and limited to edge paddling and the occasional 5 seconds in and out in a state of fear and panic. Eventually I reconciled myself to freshwater clear creeks, very nice in themselves, but not quite the profound buzz of being carried up and up by a huge ocean swell.
I even believed that it was only right that we should hunt down and eliminate every shark in the ocean so that I could swim all the way to NZ if the fancy took me...well not that it would, but I could easily imagine swimming from one beach to the next. What an absolute pleasure that would be...swimming...swimming...swimming and totally oblivious of anything but the movement of the ocean and my body.
After viewing Rob's doco I am completely transformed...I realise that we owe our very breath to sharks and I am sad and fearful of their demise. I hope that we silly 'conceited naked apes' wake up in time and realise that we are not 'divine legends' and very much an animal sharing this planet but impacting on our own and other animals' futures moreso than any other single element in our current moment
hopefully we will evolve the sense and wisdom quick enough to save sharks, the environment and even ourselves...I hope so
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