Exactly twenty-two days ago, the Oklahoman was caught up in the ire of surf fans everywhere, but especially Brazil, after three former champions, each coincidentally from Brazil, declared that judging, on the Championship Tour, had become a confused mess. The World Surf League’s chief executive Erik Logan is back. "No one person or group of people are above the integrity of the sport." They are apex predators, but they’re not monsters.” “We have had so many beautiful interactions with her over the years and sharks are so important. We call her Queen Nikki and I have grown up with her, we were teenagers at the same time,” Ramsey said at the time. “I was actually overjoyed to see her, especially that particular individual shark. The optics, as they say, were spectacular though the risk of injury, as it turned out, was low. You must remember the moment last November when marine biologist Ocean Ramsey almost climbed into the mouth of a feisty tiger. Not all encounters with tigers end in catastrophic injury. Tigers have been getting wild in Hawaii over the past few years, with four attacks so far in 2023 including a surfer whose right foot was bitten off and the death of a snorkeler from Washington State in December. The crew was panicked, and basically made an emergency landing on the sand.” The original plan was to shoot the tigers from underwater but, as series producer Huw Cordey told Forbes, “It was like something out of Jaws. “They were incredibly hungry, so there might not have been enough natural food and they were just trying anything they came across in the water,” said Nowland. The little inflatable boats the crew were using to film from had just enough air left in ‘em to get back to the beach. That was the second shark that day to attack us.” We were trying to get it away and it wasn’t having any of it. “This ’v’ of water came streaming towards us and this tiger shark leapt at the boat and bit huge holes in it,” the nature show’s director Toby Nowland told the Radio Times. The Netflix crew were set upon by two fifteen-foot tiger sharks while filming in Laysan, one of the northwestern Hawaiian islands and almost one thousand miles from Honolulu. “This ’v’ of water came streaming towards us and this tiger shark leapt at the boat and bit huge holes in it."Īlmost an ironic end, I suppose, for a film crew shooting the latest instalment of Only Planet, the four-part documentary series narrated by the great biologist Davey Attenborough, still kicking, remarkably, at almost one hundred.
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