Ocean Ramsey: Dances with Sharks

[Atomic Playboy]

What's the point of living if you're too cowardly to enjoy life? Hell, the entire field of veterinary medicine would cease to exist if everyone shared that sentiment.

There's a continuum of risk that makes life exciting. If you have to go all the way to "petting something that could eat me" to enjoy life, it's not that everyone else is boring, it's that you're an idiot.

 

[randomrogue]

There's a continuum of risk that makes life exciting. If you have to go all the way to "petting something that could eat me" to enjoy life, it's not that everyone else is boring, it's that you're an idiot.

She's 100% wrong to touch the animal. However what if she was just swimming with it? You can free dive with Tigers in South Africa and in the same area have a good chance to see Great Whites. Most of the people working down there have been in the water with both. There are places where you can dive with Bull Sharks. I've been in the water with those but got out due to an underwater sand storm. I don't know enough about Great Hammerheads but really the issue isn't so much being in the water with them, it's them thinking you're food. If the water is as clear as it is in those pictures above there's no danger. They don't attack people unless they think they're food which is mostly in murky conditions.

 

[tcsenter]

There's a continuum of risk that makes life exciting. If you have to go all the way to "petting something that could eat me" to enjoy life, it's not that everyone else is boring, it's that you're an idiot.

Its not a competitive event, this thing called life. She has her passions, you have yours, other people have theirs, others have yet to find theirs. She isn't doing any harm, at least not as much as being a great consumer who fills up the landfills with material shit they don't need over their lifetime. What's the big deal? If she get's eaten, I'm betting that's a risk she understands is possible, like skydivers jump fully informed of the risk.

And no, you really don't get to choose what makes you excited to get out of bed in the morning. Our interests pretty much chose us, not the other way around. You can't just order someone "be an entomologist" or "be passionate about computers". Doesn't work that way.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

Its not a competitive event, this thing called life. She has her passions, you have yours, other people have theirs, others have yet to find theirs. She isn't doing any harm, at least not as much as being a great consumer who fills up the landfills with material shit they don't need over their lifetime. What's the big deal? If she get's eaten, I'm betting that's a risk she understands is possible, like skydivers jump fully informed of the risk.

Except she isn't doing it as some sort of thrill-seeking event, she's trying to promote the fact that great white sharks aren't as dangerous as we make them out to be in movies. And that's true... as long as you don't put yourself into a situation where they may attack you. It's a wild animal; who knows how it's going to react to someone coming up and petting it? And if it reacts the wrong way just once, she gets attacked and possibly killed, and it gets publicized specifically because she is trying to raise awareness. That just damages her cause. She's no better than "Grizzly Man," the idiot whose campaign to raise awareness of the relative docility of grizzly bears got him and his girlfriend killed. Raising awareness of nature is great, but do it in an intelligent way.

And no, you really don't get to choose what makes you excited to get out of bed in the morning. Our interests pretty much chose us, not the other way around. You can't just order someone "be an entomologist" or "be passionate about computers". Doesn't work that way.

Sure, but someone who only gets excited when their life is on the line is a Darwin Award waiting to happen. If someone wants to do crazy shit, that's their prerogative, but I'm going to voice my opinion that I think what they're doing is asinine. Especially when it comes to fucking with nature. Let these poor creatures be.

All that said, I would totally watch a three hour long documentary special featuring nothing but her petting sharks. I'd go to four hours if it was narrated by David Attenborough.

 

[tcsenter]

She's no better than "Grizzly Man," the idiot whose campaign to raise awareness of the relative docility of grizzly bears got him and his girlfriend killed. Raising awareness of nature is great, but do it in an intelligent way.

Grizzly Man was a nutter even before his "experience" when napping in a bear bed. Numerous persons described him as unstable, who would erupt in raging red-faced rants (manic), and had a history of substance abuse. He fluctuated between delusional (e.g. the bears won't harm me) and having a death wish (e.g. If becoming bear scat is the ultimate way through which I achieve one-ness with the bears, then it will be glorious).

All that said, I would totally watch a three hour long documentary special featuring nothing but her petting sharks. I'd go to four hours if it was narrated by David Attenborough.

If you think she's delicious, check out professional free-diving mermaid, Hannah Fraser (who is even more nummy to look at, IMO):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1M7wp7yFfY

 

[deanx0r]

shark whisperer?

 

[Howard]

She has been a tremendous asset in raising awareness of the shark's plight. I had no idea that Great White was in such Dire Straits.

I'd rather ride across the river than swim in it, if there were sharks..

 

[skyking]

In all fairness, all the babe pics were deleted after I made that post. Examine it carefully.