************"Change comes from the passionate few." I've been in the water my whole life. Since I can remember I've been fascinated with sharks, part fear from the unknown and the dramatizations put out by crappy media, and part respect for something so powerful and adapt. I couldn't get enough. I'll admit, while surfing, the shadows of the reef below my feet sometimes catch my eyes; but diving..... They’re what I want to see! They are the highlights of my most memorable dives; they are a good chunk of the reason I traveled to tiny atolls in the middle of nowhere. To be in the water with them, to enjoy watching them first hand, to drift in the currents with them and observe their social behaviors.... and sometimes even interact and feed them. They are the most gorgeous thing I have ever seen in my life. I feel so privileged to be able to view schools on a fairly regular basis as I realize that will not be possible for much longer. Long line fishing and global fining are killing sharks at such rates that their extinction will come well within our lifetime. They are the lions of the underwater savanna; they play the most crucial role of keeping our ocean eco-systems healthy. I can say first hand they are not the mindless killers the media wants you to believe. They are nothing like what the media portrays. If you are a water oriented person find comfort in this, I did. Seeing them for how they truly are, shy, cognitive, and cautious. They are more afraid of us than we are of them. Bites are a result of mistaken identity and/or people placing themselves in stupid positions (ie: dirty murky runoff or bloody water.) People generally die from blood loss because of the size of the animal wound not because they were eaten. If they wanted to eat you I would've been gone a long time ago. They control the 2/3rds of the planet that we rely so heavily on and we are allowing them to be removed. We are allowing people to cut their fins off while still alive and throw them back into the ocean unable to swim or move, alive and paralyzed. As if their death wasn't enough. Imagine someone cutting all your arms and legs off and leaving you to die slowly. Surviving 450 million years, 5 major extinctions, to end at an ignorant human race too afraid to get in the water and see for them self what they're really losing, because a stupid movie and their T.V. says they're "aggressive and dangerous!" Crocodiles are aggressive and dangerous...and protected and kill more people every year than sharks have in more than a decade. Find out for yourself! Educate yourself. Go dive with some sharks, Go see for yourself the creatures you are really losing.---Ocean Ramsey ______***
"The change of mind I am talking about involves not just a change of knowledge, but also a change of attitude toward our essential ignorance, a change in our bearing in the face of mystery. The principle of ecology, if we will take it to heart, should keep us aware that our lives depend on other lives and upon processes and energies in an interlocking system that, though we can destroy it, we can neither fully understand nor fully control. And our great dangerousness is that, locked in our selfish and myopic economies, we have been willing to change or destroy far beyond our power to understand."
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