world. and they were able to stabilize him and basically saved his life. when we were allowed to finally see jimi in the hospital, we went up there right away. we took the first flight and it s always tough when you see your friend in the hospital and you re trying to avoid the 10,000-pound elephant in the room. don t forget about your fries, too. yeah, you ve got french fries there, jimi. you know what we ll do? what? i ll just pour some here. put them on your pizza. there! pizza and french fries. smile, your family s watching. good? that s awesome. best pizza you ve ever had,
they call it ptsd, apparently. okay. let s do this. i have to get back in the saddle. i have to get close to these animals again. whoa! jimi, it s topside. do you read me? over. watch out! we didn t know something was wrong with jimi. i dropped everything and jumped in the helicopter with him. you always have the whole place to yourself. no stranger at the dinner table making things awkward. or in another room taking up space. it s just you and your people. because why would you ever share your vacation home with someone you wouldn t share your vacation with.
all right. ready? so in the spring of 2020, jimi and i were shooting a show for shark week and the idea was, could we find a great white shark offshore. and if we did find one, jimi was definitely getting in the water with it. the reality is, these sharks spend most of their time in open ocean. where we can t observe them. where these animals go and what they do is the next great mys mystery. jimi had this theory that great whites might be more aggressive offshore, where their food sources are scarce. and to prove his theory, he actually wanted to jump in with a great white shark in open ocean. the problem was, how do you find
it s pretty good, actually. ni nice. jimi knows the risks of working with big great white sharks. right below you! right below you! that s a great shot. anyone who works with them knows the risk. just keep calling them out, you know? i think it s working, matt, i really do. it s pretty me monotonous for 35 minutes to an hour. i think they like my feet. that s what he went for. the next thing you know, it all happened.
coming up from down below. check, check, okay, topside, topside, push me further away from the boat. so now we had to figure out a plan to get the sharks from the deep back up to the surface. i see a bunch of sharks down below. it s an unbelievable sight. it s impossible to keep them off of you. not sure who was more nervous at that point, me or jimi. and i told him, hey, man, we can hold off for a while and try this tomorrow, but he wasn t having it. okay. let s do this. dickie, dickie, see if you can try to pull them up with the