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Narration: The weather cleared up, but there was a new problem . |
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Richard: A big tiger shark came in. |
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From your perspective, I think you could see him more clearly than I. |
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It was so poor visibility down there that I could just make it out, |
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but I could see it was a pretty big one. |
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Mark: Visibility's gone down to about five feet. |
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That's just not safe enough to dive with these big tiger sharks. |
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So we're gonna have to call off the dive team. Very disappointing. |
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Narration: The poor underwater visibility didn't seem to stop the sharks |
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from finding their prey, giving John some concerns . |
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John: I've got very mixed feeling about this, |
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because I don't really want to see the albatrosses eaten, |
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but that's what I'm here to film. |
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You can't help wishing the albatrosses will get away each time. |
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I sort of cheer inside when they do. There's a shark, right in the shallows! |
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Narration: John continued to film the action. |
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But it was another three days |
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before the visibility cleared sufficiently to make diving safe again. |
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After days of practice, |
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Richard was finally getting to the birds ahead of the sharks, |
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yet, still no success . |
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Woman: What did you see? |
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Richard: The albatross gave us the run-around for a while, |
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and then he finally decided he'd had enough of us and flew away. |
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Narration: But why didn't the sharks take the bird? |
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Were they now avoiding the divers ? |
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Doug: Whatever senses they're using, |
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they've shown us that they want to stay away from us. |
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Narration: Over the next two days, |
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Doug's theory was confirmed, |
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and Richard realised he had little to fear. |
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Richard: The sharks are not interested in us. |
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They're only interested in a slightly oilier substance |
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in the form of a nice, fat, juicy albatross. |
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