Featured in the International Business Times:
I really enjoyed this interview with the International Business Times and Liveaboard.com. It was a great opportunity to gain some positive media coverage for sharks, explore the International Shark Attack File data, and share some of my knowledge.
‘Thank Jaws for a generation of people genuinely terrified of entering a body of water. Ask anyone, even if they’ve never seen the film before, and they’ll tell you it’s a story of a bloodthirsty shark who seeks out human prey – that’s how impactful it’s been in popular culture and, more importantly, establishing how we see sharks today.
Our reliance on film portrayals of them has meant that as a whole, we do not actually know very much about sharks. As a result, our connotations of violence could be completely unfair.
Kathryn Curzon is a diver and writer for Liveaboard.com, a website to book cruises, and a trained scuba diving instructor and great white shark safari guide. She spoke to IBTimes UK and set the record straight…’
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/shark-attacks-how-protect-yourself-1652582
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