One photographer to redefine the shark

I was expecting to meet a shocking “man”, but when I saw him, I realized that he was an isolated animal, afraid of me more than I was. That moment sparked my curiosity, and decided to learn more about sharks. I traveled to Guadalobi Island off the Pacific Coast of Mexico to see the great white shark, and took a small camera with me. When I managed to photograph a wonderful white shark, I realized that the camera was more than one tool, it was a way to reach my goal in an interview of sharks.

The films have reduced sharks to one or two people’s description: they are terrifying and not saturated. What do you learn to be with them and why do you defend them?

From a young age, I dreamed of being diver because my father was divers. While my mother died when I was only one year old, my father used to tell me his adventures with sharks. He said they are bad. When I was seven years old, I saw the movie Fawy, It was attracted to the character of Matt Huber, the world. In the end, when the shark destroys the boat, Huber enters into a cage, breaks the shark, and everyone assumes that it should be eaten, but in the end, it survives. Shortly after seeing the movie, we went to a beach in Tuksban, in the Eastern Mexican Veracrose state. My father bought a little dead shark from a fisherman, and played with her on the beach with my brother’s half -brother. These moments led to my love for sharks. For me, living next to animals is my safe area. Then I feel calm, when I am really myself. I feel free, comfortable.

Wire covered how unjust hunting reached deep seas, threatening rays And sharks. During 20 years of meetings with these creatures, have you seen changes in their residents, and what is similar to watching the direct impact on our oceans?

I have seen a phenomenon. Without going away from my house, near the island of Cosumil, off the coast of Riviera Maya in the Caribbean, there was more life than now. But I also saw places like Cabo Pulmo, on the Baja California party, where there were no sharks almost 20 years ago, and now teeming with them. When sharks are present naturally, without anyone supporting the population and feeding them, this is a sign that the ecosystem is healthy. In Cabo Pulmo they created protected areas that became hope points. There is not enough of these areas, but you can find the entire food chain, from sharks to the smallest plankton. When the sharks are robbed, the entire ecosystem becomes unbalanced.

Recently, I have seen more and more dead coral and pesticide, it’s very sad.

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