Blonde and a Great White

awesome vid :thumbsup2:

Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit......crazy.

No, you're just grabbing the wrong code. I fixed it. Didn't watch the vid yet.

Here is a little back story on Ramsy from a Aussie paper.

THERE must be easier ways to get around underwater than hitching a ride with a great white shark.

But for Hawaiian shark conservation advocate Ocean Ramsey, it's a way of connecting with nature and getting the world to take notice of this apex predator's gentler side.

Ramsey, a free-diving expert, recently took a risk few others in the world have dared - swimming in open water with several adult great whites.

She told The Daily Telegraph yesterday the experience, which occurred off the coast of Mexico, was one of the highlights of her lifelong diving career.

"The goal was to go and find some great white sharks and collect video footage of their natural behaviour, but also, if the opportunity arose and the conditions were right, to actually interact with them," she said.
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"We wanted to show that this is what they're really like - not the Hollywood movie where you put a drop of blood in the water and the animals go crazy."

Ramsey got what she was hoping for and more.

After two days observing the white pointers from a cage, she ventured into open water, kicking slowly towards a 5m female before grabbing its dorsal fin.

The feelings coursing through her body at that moment were a mixture of "incredible joy and breathtaking emotions".

"There is an instinctive fear, knowing what the animals are capable of, but it's hard to describe what it's like to be in the presence of such a magnificent animal," she said. "I felt extremely privileged to have such a close encounter."

Ramsey likened the connection she felt as she patted the sharks and rode on their backs to her experiences with horses.

Sydney Sea Life Aquarium aquarist Amy Wilkes said that swimming with great white sharks was clearly a dangerous proposition.

"It is risky - she is swimming with a very large predator, but the important thing to remember is that sharks are not always swimming around, trying to eat people," Ms Wilkes said. "She has gone to a great deal of effort to avoid threatening behaviour or scaring the sharks, so it's a calculated risk."

Ramsey, a former marine park sharks curator who has also swum with tiger sharks and bull sharks in Australia and the South Pacific, said she had years of experience interacting with the animals and reading their body language and behaviour.

"I wouldn't recommend or encourage people go out and go freediving with these animals," she said.

"They are wild animals and they need to be respected as an apex predator - they can only ever be so predictable."

I have mixed feelings about the footage. She has amazing trust in her experience and subject, and it is biter sweet for me, the beauty of the girl and the GW in the blue, but with the belief deep within my every cell that, in time, (god forbid) she or others will be bit in half. I am a shark lover most of the times, and also know that some could, on their terms, have me stay in Mother Ocean forever.

Cheers, Don

don is right , it is beautiful but very risky , any body remember the grizzly man .

The sea giveth, and the sea taketh away.

Don

People are taking more and more risk in the effort to shot some video.

Someone is going to get killed soon...but at least it will be on camera.

Yeah. This is beauty but gratuitous. All it shows people is that you can some times win at Russian roulette.

I love sharks and I hold them in the utmost respect. I will leave if they are there and agressive. In a tense situation, I believe I am more important and would ph one if I had too. People should not flirt with whites

Man..... How do you go back to land after that experience? I am a bit of an adrenaline junky myself, but only where I am in control. I don't think I could do it. It would be to intense. Just like I could not get in the ring with Rampage Jackson even if he told me he would not kick me in the head.

It makes me really curious as to what the shark thinks of this all. Seeing that cage and the divers and cameras, what's the shark really experiencing? Do they enjoy it? Do they seek it out? Is it just really good timing that they are not hungry?