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There remain many white shark mysteries for scientists
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The Hollywood shark whisperer who went nose-to-nose with Jaws
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What It Was Like to Film the Shark Sequences for Jaws
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Valerie Taylor is one of the first to capture great white sharks on film and dive with them without a cage. Along with her husband Ron, she was involved with the world’s first documentaries on great whites, and was called upon by Steven Spielberg to capture the shark footage seen in the 1975 blockbuster
Jaws.
These days, Taylor is trying to secure protections for great whites and the rest of the marine world through her work as an activist and conservationist, work that has earned her the Order of Australia. She is the subject of the new documentary
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Michael Bolton: The Man Who Films Sharks
Understanding shark behavior, learning more about them, and educating people about sharks is part of the solution, along with creating awareness about their importance to our ecosystem, and informing people that they are NOT out there to eat us!
did that shark attack them?
The answer is no.
This is actually one of the photos from the countless shark dive expeditions Michael Bolton has filmed and photographed.
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In January 1992, Valerie and Ron Taylor accomplished an incredible first when they filmed great white sharks without a safety cage or any other protection. Alongside two other divers, they swam among great white sharks off Dyer Island, South Africa.
Valerie Taylor, a living legend and icon in the diving world, is a lively, enthusiastic woman in her 80s who shares some of those memories in Playing With Sharks, a documentary about her life directed by Sally Aitken, which premiered at this year’s online Sundance Film Festival.
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It spans almost 70 years of Taylor’s career, showing her time as a shark hunter in the 1950s and early 1960s, and later as a world-renowned underwater photographer and explorer, and, above all, a passionate marine conservationist.
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