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🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:34.9 | We're in the middle of winter, so the water is very cold and the sky was gray. The sea |
0:41.9 | was gray as well. There's no limit, you know, and you see the sky and the sea. The sea |
0:47.1 | was very flat and there is no limit between the sea and the sky. |
0:52.0 | That's the little romp, Ballesta, a French photographer. He's remembering one day he's |
0:56.5 | met out on the Mediterranean when he was a teenager living in Montpellier. It was a day |
1:01.5 | that would change his life. A fisherman had told him and a friend about a nearby shipwreck, |
1:06.3 | and they were searching for it along the shore. |
1:09.1 | And suddenly I start to see some fins, big shark fins. |
1:15.5 | The fins came a foot or two out of the water. It was incredibly strange because the sea |
1:20.3 | near his town wasn't supposed to have sharks. |
1:23.5 | And some micro and what's that? One big fin like that, another one, another one, and |
1:29.3 | the sea was full of this fin. There were about a dozen sharks and each was about 18 feet |
1:35.5 | long, the size of small boats. So that was huge. But even though he hadn't seen sharks |
1:41.6 | here before, they looked familiar. |
1:44.5 | Naran's hero was the iconic French underwater explorer Jacques Cousteau. As a kid, Laran used |
1:50.0 | to swim around pretending to be Cousteau. But now that he was looking at real sharks, |
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