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- “We were shooting at around 10 meters [33 feet], so we needed a lot of light,” Overton says. “As you go deeper, [the water adds the equivalent of] so many layers of blue filters that you need some light to bring out color.” Fortunately, Taylor was wearing “her trademark bright-pink wetsuit, so the color really popped.”
theasc.com › articles › playing-with-sharks-valerie-taylorUnderwater Legend: Playing With Sharks: The Valerie Taylor Story
Apr 29, 2022 · In 1980, Valerie and Ron went as far as using themselves as human bait to prove sharks were no threat. Wearing protective chain-mail suits, they covered themselves in raw fish to coax sharks to ...
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Oct 27, 2021 · Fortunately, Taylor was wearing “her trademark bright-pink wetsuit, so the color really popped.” Here are more images from Taylor’s life and work: Taylor waited patiently for the perfect light while setting up this shot of a shark with the sun shining behind it.
Jun 14, 2021 · Footage in the documentary of Valerie underwater with sharks accurately shows the interactions between humans and sharks. The message is that sharks don’t see humans as food.
- Stephanie Gardner
Nov 25, 2019 · Valerie Taylor has been bitten twice and nipped once by sharks in 40 years of diving with them -- without permanent injury.
The couple's work with sharks saw them hired to film underwater sequences for Steven Spielberg's 1975 Academy Award-winning horror Jaws and they were also "accidentally", the first to film the underwater predators without the protection of a diving cage.
Feb 6, 2021 · Never mind that she would later wear a chainmail suit to test the true power of a shark's bite — or face off with a pack of white-tipped sharks, her fists pumping, determined to swim alongside them in the ocean. To call Valerie Taylor fearless would be an understatement.
During the early 1980s Taylor began experiments with sharks wearing a steel mesh suit. The 1981 front cover of National Geographic magazine featured Taylor, off the coast of California, during one of these experiments with blue sharks wearing a chainmail suit.
