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Shark Warrior closeGPEQWPVGTU Lesley Rochat, also known as the ‘Shark Warrior’ for her passionate efforts in shark conservation, joins a photographic expedition to the Bahamas as part of a shark-awareness campaign and finds her shark-diving experience there to be one of her most moving ever. PHOTOGRAPHS LESLEY ROCHAT At certain depths lemon sharks have a pale yellow appearance. Here it is just the pitted skin-surface, like that of a lemon, which is visible. 54 55 close encounters While calmly settled on the sand and surrounded by silky “ smooth Caribbean reef sharks, a few lemon sharks, five I’m in paradise: not a single sight of land, only a magnificent turquoise tiger sharks and the odd nurse shark, all ignoring me, ocean yawns endlessly before me, merging with an equally expansive two words spring to mind about yet another shark myth: blue sky as though they are one. Looking down from the Dolphin Dream total bull!” vessel, about 30 lemon sharks and two large tiger sharks, whose stripes I can count through the gin-clear water, are swimming around the bait box placed on the sand about six metres below on the famous dive site, Tiger Beach. I breathe the moment in and let out a loaded sigh of relief: I’m in the Bahamas with the sharks, finally! Yesterday when I .irst entered this beauteous ocean, its exquisite surrounding another dream being realised – the opening of the irst shade of blue and in.inite visibility teeming with ancient predators shark centre in South Africa – had me graciously handing my offer resembled a surreal underwater fantasy world. I yelled with delight over to someone I thought at the time deserved to replace me. Though to the others still on the boat: ‘Wow! It’s totally awesome, magniicent! a sweet concept, I was never sorry for not becoming a Shark Angel, There’s loads of sharks down here!’ Conditions are the same today, but only for having missed the opportunity to dive with the sharks. But I’m feeling apprehensive because I’m about to jump in with all these some things are meant to be ours and a second opportunity arose sharks wearing a blinding bright‐yellow wetsuit sponsored by Coral when invited by underwater photographer Michael Aw to join his Wetsuits, made especially for a photo shoot. Articles I’ve read with photographic expedition to the Bahamas and help him with his new headings like ‘Yum, Yum Yellow!’ which explain how wearing yellow shark‐awareness campaign. It was also a perfect chance to work on a is like signing a death‐by‐sharks wish, since they’re supposed to be new shark‐awareness campaign I am driving. attracted to this colour, has me frozen with the wetsuit halfway up my How this became one of the most popular shark‐diving destinations legs. It doesn’t help when Gail, sister‐in‐law to Scott Smith, the owner in the world began with one man, Scott, and the fate that followed. of Dolphin Dream, exclaims: ‘I would never, ever get in there with all Initially in the 1980s he only ran spotted dolphin trips and it was by of them in that!’ A few more dive buddies mutter similar replies when chance that he started the irst reef shark dive in the area, not far from I test what now appears to be their sanity versus my madness. But Tiger Beach. ‘The reef sharks lived on the reef before we started to I convince myself: ‘I’m the Shark Warrior, right?’ and so I get in. I’m attract them with bait. Back in the 1990s I would anchor around Tiger totally dizzy after spinning around repeatedly, waiting for sharks to Beach area and any ish we caught during the day I would tie off to the begin devouring me, but absolutely nothing untoward happens. While back of the boat, only to discover it eaten by tiger sharks during the calmly settled on the sand and surrounded by silky smooth Caribbean night.’ Scott tells me. reef sharks, a few lemon sharks, ive tiger sharks and the odd nurse During this time he says that Jim Abernethy, now the only other shark, all ignoring me, two words spring to mind about yet another Tiger Shark operator, but at the time husband to Anna who worked on shark myth: total bull! I am simply not on their menu, whether coated Scott’s boat, would sail over in his day boat from Palm Beach, follow in this shocking yellow wetsuit or the blood‐red one I wore yesterday, Scott around and tie up to his boat while visiting his wife and charging and which not surprisingly turned black after ive metres (red is the his camera batteries. Apparently he saw the business opportunities in irst colour to be absorbed in water). Sheepishly I’m reminded of the tiger shark diving, and although initially Scott was very much against importance of my very own campaign, ‘Rethink the Shark’, created running tiger shark trips for fear of altering the behaviour of a top for AfriOceans and me by Saatchi & Saatchi to highlight the media’s predator in the area, Jim soon started running liveaboard shark diving propaganda against sharks still perpetuating today. They remain charters. With a ‘you can’t beat them, so join them’ approach, and one of the most misunderstood animals on earth, attested by this needing to keep a share in the diving business he pioneered in this experience and supported by recent research done with 17 species part of the Bahamas, Scott says he followed suit. of shark that proves they are in fact colour blind. Apparently, what Now as much as I absolutely love the experience of diving with appears more important to sharks while detecting different objects, sharks I would not be a true conservationist if the impact we have is contrast. Knowing this I now understand why, while swimming to the on sharks by baiting for them didn’t beg constant question. Listening surface wearing contrasting yellow and black split ins, I had to push a to Scott’s initial concerns and knowing that he averages 30 trips a persistent lemon shark away that no doubt thought my ins resembled year with over 4500 days of observation on the western edge of the something tasty .leeing from her and was worthy of her close inspection. Little Bahama Bank has me probing for more. ‘The population of tiger I had fantasised about visiting this location ever since I gave up the sharks, lemon sharks and even reef sharks around Tiger Beach is not a The disfigured mouth of ‘Smiley’ the tiger invite of becoming a Shark Angel and joining Sean Heinrich, fellow natural population; it is an unnatural population created by chumming shark displays evidence of fishing threats. shark conservationist, to dive with these beauties in a promotional for sharks. Previous to the year 2000 there were almost no reef shark .ilm he was making three years ago. At the time, work pressures sightings on the reefs, almost no sightings of lemon sharks and maybe 56 57 close encounters ...Fish Tale, a stunning reef with sharks weaving invisible paths over it...” Caribbean reef sharks were attracted to the bait box on the dive site Fish Tale. They are social sharks that rest in groups by day, often in shallow water on sand. 58 59 close encounters one or two tiger sharks over a 10‐square‐mile area. Now the shark population in about three square miles numbers 15 to 20 reef sharks, 20 to 30 lemon sharks and 8 to 12 tiger sharks,’ he tells me. ‘The big question is what impact this unnaturally high population of sharks puts on other parts of the environment, the dolphins, turtles, rays, ish and even the sharks themselves,’ he adds and closes the conversation with, ‘All this talk makes it sound like I’m against tiger shark diving but I’m not, I’m just experienced and honest enough to talk straight about it. I also recognise that the upside is that it creates public awareness about sharks in a positive light.’ Back in shark‐lovers heaven on my favourite site named Fish Tale, a stunning reef with sharks weaving invisible paths over it, a large black grouper, obviously conditioned by divers with offers of tasty morsels, is hanging around me, practically kissing my dome port. As cute as it is, all this .ish with Angelina Jolie‐like lips does is make my conservation conscience get the better of me – what impact are we really having on this fragile ecosystem? Are our self‐centered needs the driving force behind something which at .irst seems positive and harmless, but actually isn’t? My thoughts are interrupted by a graceful reef shark swimming past trailing a .ishing line and then seeing a tiger shark nicknamed Smiley because of her damaged mouth that gives her a permanent grin. Clearly these are the destructive marks of a much bigger threat – .ishermen. I’m horri.ied to learn, when enquiring about the protection status of the 40 species of sharks inhabiting these waters, that although long‐lining was banned in 1993, .ishermen have free reign to catch them during .ishing seasons. The impact of the scuba divers now pales in comparison to this news and our shark‐awareness campaign, ‘Rethink the Predator’, also created for me by Saatchi & Saatchi, which I’m here to gather images for, is ever more pressing. This friendly black grouper can grow up to 100 kilograms in weight and 1.5 metres in length.
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