National Geographic: The Fox and the Shark Page #2

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1985
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But it wasn't easy to

forget his attack.

The fear of the sharks when I went

back in the water was huge.

M y first time my head went underwater,

I imagined in my mind sharks running

in from all directions and I said,

"stop it, you've got to control that."

Things would never exactly return

to normal for Rodney.

His love of the sea was now

overshadowed by a terrible fascination

with his old nemesis the shark.

I n 1965, he organized the first

expedition to track the great white.

The adventure became a docudrama.

But danger in the

unknown makes man himself the quarry

of the most savage hunter of the deep

the great white shark

the white

great white death.

Come on you bastard, attack.

This is some of the first footage

ever shot of a great white under water.

Coming in

now!

That doesn't taste

so good, that wire mesh.

The theme is revenge a crusade to

rid the seas of evil sharks.

Death and the battle's almost over,

a second maneater who's jaw will never

again menace an unsuspecting swimmer.

I n those days, people feared sharks

because they knew very little

about them.

They thought that every shark was

a bad shark

and there was a big saying

at that stage that the best shark

was a dead shark.

The first film

was followed by a second.

"Attacked by a Killer Shark" is about

Rodney his attack and recovery.

Again, it shows Rodney wielding

a speargun, bent on revenge.

Time out to reload.

The cartridge inside the

head explodes on contact.

The tremendous concussion

is transmitted into the body,

killing instantly.

But it does twist

the truth just a little.

I wasn't really after revenge.

What I was frightened of

was going back in the water

and being bitten again.

And so I was quite keen to try out

the new explosive powder head

that had been invented.

And I went underwater and I shot some

of these sharks on file to

show that man could

protect himself underwater.

Rod's on a killing frenzy,

intoxicated with his

successes overriding his fears.

This is exactly the scene he

had been in need of.

I n fact, Rodney's attitude

was beginning to change

a fact obscured

by the dramatic film script.

I didn't realize or understand

much at that time but I thought,

that's not the right attitude.

We've got to look at it

further than that.

We've got to learn more about them

and understand them

and learn to live with them.

As Rodney's appreciation for

the great white began to grow,

so too did his expertise

as a shark tracker.

I n 1969, he was called into work

on a shark movie unlike

any that had gone before.

Has that cage been checked out?

Film Producer Peter Gimbel

turned to Rodney to deliver

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