Women in Shark Science: The Revenge

Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Society & Culture

4.0 • 4.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Women who brave the waters of shark science often face outrageous sexism, but they have made great waves in the field. We dive into the stories of some famous women and organizations doing great work in the field, the issues they face, and we give a brief review of the seminal Christmas film Jaws 4.

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Annie.
0:06.1	And Samantha.
0:07.0	And welcome to Sephone Never Told You, production of I Heart Radio.
0:10.0	So Samantha, what are your thoughts on sharks?
0:22.0	You know, as I've talked about, I have many weird phobias.
0:26.0	And I guess I did not realize how many that I had until people started asking me to do things
0:32.3	or if I was interested in things.
0:35.0	And then when people would suggest things, I'm like, oh, actually I'm scared of that.
0:38.0	And sharks and creatures in the sea scare me.
0:41.9	One of those things is like, if I can't see the bottom, I can't, I can't.
0:45.6	If I can't see in the water, hell no, hell no.
0:48.5	I don't know if it's because of the many tails that I've heard of people losing a limb
0:53.5	and or be like bitten on or chewed on a little bit or stung.
0:59.4	All of those things have scared me pretty darn well so that I don't like going too deep
1:06.7	into the ocean.
1:07.7	I don't want to scuba.
1:08.7	I don't want to do any of those things.
1:10.6	The one time I went to Puerto Rico and all we did was like, you know, we were not that
1:14.6	far out, but they were like, here's the scuba.
1:16.6	All you need to do.
1:17.6	And when I figured out what was around me, I immediately got out.
1:20.2	I was like, oh my god, I can see these things now.
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