I was expecting to meet a dreaded “man”, but when I saw it, I realized that this was a defenseless animal, it was more afraid of me. At that moment, my curiosity aroused me and decided to know more about sharks. I traveled to Guadelop Island on the Pacific Ocean of Mexico to see large white sharks and took a small camera and shooting with me. When I managed to take pictures of a large white shark, I realized that the camera was more than one tool, it was a tool to achieve my goal to meet sharks.
Films have reduced sharks for many people to one or two descriptions: they are terrible and unsatisfactory. What do you learn about being with them and why do you defend them?
From an early age I dreamed of being a diver because my parents were diver. While my mother died when I was only a year old, my father used to tell me his stories with sharks. He said they are bad. I saw the movie when I was seven Jumper And I was drawn to the character of Matt Hopper, a scientist. In the end, when the shark destroys the boat, Hooper enters the cage, the shark breaks it and everyone thinks he should be eaten, but in the end, he survives. Soon after watching this movie, we went to a beach in TUXPAN, in eastern Mexico Veracruz. My father bought the dead shark from a fisherman and I played with my brothers on the beach. Those moments led to my love for sharks. For me, living alongside animals is my safe space. It is at that time that I feel comfortable when I am really myself. I feel comfortable.
Wired has covered how too much fishing has reached deep seas and threatens beams and sharks. In 20 years of dealing with these creatures, have you seen changes in their population, and you see first -hand in our oceans?
I have seen two phenomena. Without being far away from my home, near the island of Kozomel, on the coast of Rivira Maya on the Caribbean, there was once more life than now. But I also saw places like Cabo Pulmo at the tip of Baja California, where there was almost no shark 20 years ago, and now deal with them. When the sharks are naturally present, without anyone supporting the population and feeding them, this is a sign of ecosystem healthy. In Cabo Pulmo they have created protected areas that have become hopeful points. It is not enough from these areas, but there you can find a complete food chain from sharks to the smallest plankton. When you remove the sharks, the whole ecosystem becomes unbalanced.
Recently, I have seen more and more dead and white corals and are very uncomfortable.
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