“In a performance protest against the Australian shark cull and the global slaughter of sharks, a woman risks it all to dance on the sea floor with swarms of tiger sharks up to 17 feet long without any dive or protective gear.” (x)
The woman in the video is Hannah Fraser, and yes, it’s real. Hannah Fraser is a professional mermaid/free-diver who does shit like this all the time
YOOOOOOO.
I’m not saying I have a mad-crush on this amazing shark-mermaid-lady, but I have a mad-crush on this amazing shark-mermaid-lady.
This is great but she’s not “risking it all”. The entire fucking point is that she’s not risking it all. Those sharks are HARMLESS and dont care about humans at all. As you can see, they’re totally chill with her being there. And as a pro-diver/mermaid she’s fully trained to free dive without equipment.
The reason this is such an effective protest is because it proves that tiger sharks aren’t interested in harming humans. And that they’re actually quite gentle even. So please, for Hannah Fraser, stop putting this shark-scare bullshit on images of her when that’s literally what she’s fighting with this performance.
@zoologicallyobsessed What do you think about her protest method/protesting the shark cull?
Shark only attack people when they mistake them for prey they actually do eat, which is why most of the people who do get attacked are surfers or drivers wearing driving gear; it changes the outline of their shape to look like a seal.
The Sydney Taronga zoo has a published report on shark attacks in 2017, which you can read here. And across Australia there was only 18 attacks, of which only 1 person died, 11 suffering injured and 6 remaining unharmed.
You can see why the shark cull is such an ineffective and cruel process then. Shark culling does not work. It does not lower the already very low number of shark attacks, and most of the time the shark that gets killed isn’t even the shark that attacked in the first place. It serves no purpose.
As for the protest, I think it is effective showing that she can be in the middle of a school of sharks and not be attacked – she’s trying to target the unfounded fear and hate people have for sharks which is good. She’s also not touching or otherwise really interfering with any of them which again is good.
Fibromyangela 