bye
I’m Greg Marshall inventor of critter
cam it’s a camera system of a research
tool that we deploy on the backs of wild
animals to see what they’re doing when
they can’t be there to observe their
behavior National Geographic Explorer
was with me on my very first expedition
to deploy at pier cam or a shark and it
turns out it was a lot more dangerous
than I ever imagined the content was
pretty straightforward catch the shark
control it dived with it and do the
deployments and on the bottom where we
could control the shark in its
environment where it was comfortable
that was a bad decision as I tried to
insert the dart into the base of the
dorsal fin that the shark flinched
basically got out of the handlers
control nick is in the water filming the
whole scene and watches as the shark
swims away and he decides to follow the
shark and and filming one of the
handlers decided to come back and to
recapture the shark he reaches down with
hook stick and hooks the shark again in
the mouth of course the shark does what
any animal would do to protect itself it
comes back and turns immediately tore
the closest target that it imagines has
inflicted this pain which happens to be
Nick less than two seconds later I’ve
got a shark suddenly trying to tear my
right leg I took the camera shark bites
the camera I kept pounding it and every
time the gel opened a little bit wiggle
my leg out because I know if another
split second it’s who I have no at least
no foot nick is scrambling to get to the
surface with the shark on his hand on
his feet I knew I was only 15 20 feet
from the surface but I had no help I
struggled to get now with kind of one
leg working
up to the top and the shark is coming at
me the whole time and then I just kind
of ran out of steam and for the first
time in my life I dropped the camera
soon the cameras dropped from Nick’s
hands and it falls down to the bottom of
the ocean and the cloud of sand and my
right hand slid right into the shark’s
mouth my thumb my finger would
completely split up to the bone and I
hear one of the local fishermen scream
he’s dead first thing I saw Nick was in
essence almost as if he were being
pushed out of the water the next thing
I’m looking at blue sky like old Nick
out of the water and he’s bleeding
obviously in higher he’s not dead but
he’s in trouble he’s in real trouble I
just remembered this little voice saying
hang in there don’t pass out he looked
ashen he looked terrified he looked in
shock we’re not screaming just remember
him saying it got me it got me and I was
flown from Cancun to to Miami we were
totally focused on Nick and when Nick
was finally taken care of there’s
nothing else we could do and we walked
back down to the beach and one of the
fishermen came up to me and said well
what do you want to do it the Shah Rukh
and what shark they said well we got the
shark again
the prevailing sentiment was you know
out of respect for what had happened and
they come out of respect for the shark
itself we really felt that the best
thing to do was to complete the project
can actually go through with it so
that’s we did that shark was the very
first Crittercam deployment on a wild
free-ranging animal that accident
happened in May in august of the same
year we did another show for National
Geographic so I actually got back to
work with sharks which I still love
doing but I’m just glad that you know i
am here to tell this story and it does
have a good ending i mean i didn’t i’m
not missing anything and i’m still happy
filming sharks i’m just a little bit
more careful on how i go about it
I’m Greg Marshall inventor of critter
cam it’s a camera system of a research
tool that we deploy on the backs of wild
animals to see what they’re doing when
they can’t be there to observe their
behavior National Geographic Explorer
was with me on my very first expedition
to deploy at pier cam or a shark and it
turns out it was a lot more dangerous
than I ever imagined the content was
pretty straightforward catch the shark
control it dived with it and do the
deployments and on the bottom where we
could control the shark in its
environment where it was comfortable
that was a bad decision as I tried to
insert the dart into the base of the
dorsal fin that the shark flinched
basically got out of the handlers
control nick is in the water filming the
whole scene and watches as the shark
swims away and he decides to follow the
shark and and filming one of the
handlers decided to come back and to
recapture the shark he reaches down with
hook stick and hooks the shark again in
the mouth of course the shark does what
any animal would do to protect itself it
comes back and turns immediately tore
the closest target that it imagines has
inflicted this pain which happens to be
Nick less than two seconds later I’ve
got a shark suddenly trying to tear my
right leg I took the camera shark bites
the camera I kept pounding it and every
time the gel opened a little bit wiggle
my leg out because I know if another
split second it’s who I have no at least
no foot nick is scrambling to get to the
surface with the shark on his hand on
his feet I knew I was only 15 20 feet
from the surface but I had no help I
struggled to get now with kind of one
leg working
up to the top and the shark is coming at
me the whole time and then I just kind
of ran out of steam and for the first
time in my life I dropped the camera
soon the cameras dropped from Nick’s
hands and it falls down to the bottom of
the ocean and the cloud of sand and my
right hand slid right into the shark’s
mouth my thumb my finger would
completely split up to the bone and I
hear one of the local fishermen scream
he’s dead first thing I saw Nick was in
essence almost as if he were being
pushed out of the water the next thing
I’m looking at blue sky like old Nick
out of the water and he’s bleeding
obviously in higher he’s not dead but
he’s in trouble he’s in real trouble I
just remembered this little voice saying
hang in there don’t pass out he looked
ashen he looked terrified he looked in
shock we’re not screaming just remember
him saying it got me it got me and I was
flown from Cancun to to Miami we were
totally focused on Nick and when Nick
was finally taken care of there’s
nothing else we could do and we walked
back down to the beach and one of the
fishermen came up to me and said well
what do you want to do it the Shah Rukh
and what shark they said well we got the
shark again
the prevailing sentiment was you know
out of respect for what had happened and
they come out of respect for the shark
itself we really felt that the best
thing to do was to complete the project
can actually go through with it so
that’s we did that shark was the very
first Crittercam deployment on a wild
free-ranging animal that accident
happened in May in august of the same
year we did another show for National
Geographic so I actually got back to
work with sharks which I still love
doing but I’m just glad that you know i
am here to tell this story and it does
have a good ending i mean i didn’t i’m
not missing anything and i’m still happy
filming sharks i’m just a little bit
more careful on how i go about it
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