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At 85, Valerie Taylor is still fighting to preserve the ocean’s fiercest predator – Sydney Morning Herald
The life story of the pioneering scuba diver, documentary maker and conservationist is the subject of a new documentary.
Despite being nipped four times by sharks since she started competitive spearfishing in the 1950s, she retains a sense of wonder and affection for them.
The documentary shows Taylor fearlessly diving amid a shark feeding frenzy to make the 1971 film Blue Water, White Death. It shows her wearing a chainmail suit to put her arm in a sharks mouth to show their jaws do not have any crushing power. She trains a shark to move to a better spot for a photo and handfeeds a great white from the back of a…
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