exactly. i actually thought i was going to get away but it caught my left leg. when it caught your left leg i would imagine, what i ve read about sharks, they kind of pull and tug you and pull you under. are you still swimming? actually i felt the shark swim between my legs. it grazed my right inner knee, caught my left leg. i heard its teeth go. it caught me you heard the teeth on your bo bones? i heard those teeth on my leg. you re just shocked. you can t believe it. you re kind of hangs out there. you know, like in seaworld when dolphins have you d yeah. it was i don t go there anymore either. and the water splashing in your face and for a couple seconds you re just out of it. you just can t believe it. phillipe, let me ask you this. did he do the right thing? if a great white or any shark is coming toward you should you start swimming as fast as you can toward shore? no. not necessarily. i mean, sharks can certainly
outswim human beings and can sense panic. so probably the best thing to do is try and stay calm and turn around and face that shark. i have to say, ali, every time there s a shark attack or two every summer people delayer it the summer of the shark. that s a mistake. this does happen but it happens so infrequently. people are afraid of being attacked by sharks then they should be afraid of being hit by lightning. that happens more often. they should buy a lot of lottery tickets because you re more likely to win the lottery oftentimes. last week in yellowstone three campers were attacked by a grizzly bear. one of them was killed. we re not calling it the year of the bear. while it s grisly and fear of sharks taps into the primal fear of the unknown, the darkness beneath us we don t know, we have to understand it s very, very rare and sharks are very important to the health of the ecosystems and we kill sharks every year and ultimately sharks have a lot more to be afraid of from us than
you would be amazed at the number of people who scuba dive and try to grab a nurse shark and try to grab them out of a cave. there s been 50 attacks by nurse sharks primarily by people who are trying to pull them out of their cave and touch them. keep your distance from the sharks. watch them. enjoy your experience. don t touch. you ve seen this footage of a shark that sort of washed up on the jersey shore, flipping on the sand. they always show in these news stories the great big white shark jumping out of the water, pulling a helicopter down. right. this one is the sweetest little shark. you want to name him, you know, fido and take him home. it s sweet. i wish they showed more of this every time they said in chattah, massachusetts, a great white sighting. no. it s a little minnow. it s a disney character. i think it s important to say that. i think we should sort of change our thinking about sharks in general. right. more than half the shark species are less than thr
no problem. and also, hurricane barry was off the coast, the water was murky, choppy. it was just frigid. it wasn t like the day before when i was in the water. you re swimming and see a fin coming right toward you? it s coming right toward me from the corner, from the right side of my eye i saw this shark fin approaching me. and the first thing i had to do was just get out of its path. i just tried to turn around and start swimming toward the land and to get away from the shark. but, of course, i i actually this is a re-enactment we re showing here which is horrifying. i actually thought i was going to get away but it caught my left leg between my knee and my ankle. this is, you know, this is everyone s greatest fear. a fin coming toward you. what s going through your head? are you thinking how do i get away? are you having flashbacks of your life? i mean no, i m just thinking i m just going to get out of the way before the shark gets to where i am right now.
it s shark week on tv and in real life. the discovery channel s promoting its 23rd annual shark week just as sharks are being spotted off the coast of massachusetts and new jersey. yesterday a 37-year-old woman s arm was shred in a shark attack in florida. joining us, andy dayhard, discovery channel shark adviser and marine biologist for shark week. thompson is a shark attack survivor, celebrating his wedding anniversary with his wife in the bahamas, he lost his leg when a shark tore into him. this month he s hosting blue august, a month of special programming about the world s oceans. he s the president of earth oakco international and grandson of jauk gusto. you have a long intro, don t you? welcome. i have to say there s nothing that scares me more than a shark which i why i won t even take a