For years and years people have always thought of sharks as the predator from the deep, a fine tuned killing machine whose sole mission in life is to destroy humans. At least that's they way they have been and are still are portrayed in movies, the media, and even on Discovery Channel's Shark Week—an annual show supposedly aimed at educating people about sharks. The only thing is though, most of these shows are categorically false when it comes to how sharks interact with humans. Globally, sharks only kill an average of 5-15 people per year, that is a very very low number. As a comparison, dogs kill an average of 30-50 people each year and that's just in the United States alone. Basically what I'm trying to get at here is that sharks as a whole have a reputation that doesn't match up with their statistics and I would urge people to open up their minds about sharks and see them for what they really are, a beautiful, highly intelligent animal animal perfectly suited to it's environment. What's the best way to open our minds and see them for what they really are? Well, my advice would be to seem them in their natural environment and there's no better way to do that then to see them while snorkeling! As shark awareness grows globally and people realize sharks aren't the people killing machines they've been made out to be, they are are traveling all over the world to safely swim with sharks and it's turned into a massive source of revenue for ecotourism. Globally the annual estimate is that sharks bring in over $314 million dollars for ecotourism activities. This influx of money has been hugely influential in not only establishing many safe options for swimming with sharks—including great whites
For years and years people have always thought of sharks as the predator from the deep, a fine tuned killing machine whose sole mission in life is to destroy humans. At least that’s they way they have been and are still are portrayed in movies, the media, and even on Discovery Channel’s Shark Week—an annual
