What Jason sees with his drone is taming our fear of sharks | StephanieAWood1
He might post a video of dolphins dancing around a clutch of surfers in translucent aquamarine waters , or one of Norman, the pale-grey nurse shark, gliding through a swarming baitball of Australian salmon, or a red-bathing-capped ocean swimmer startling at the sight of Raymond’s dark mass beneath him, or a shimmering “fever” of cownose rays in formation.“Wowsers,” Iggleden might say.
“But the funny thing was, every now and again a shark would pop into my mind. I was like, ‘You got nothing to do with what I want to do, go away.’ But it wouldn’t stop, it kept coming, just a picture of a shark in my mind.” In his Instagram stories, seen by thousands of people a day, Iggleden delivers homespun messages about positivity, gratitude, the power of the mind and “becoming conscious”. He shares the fact of his own depression with his followers. “Thinking about the past, that’s depression, so I always tell people to be in the moment.” Dawn at Bondi has been Iggleden’s unfolding moment, his meditation and his medicine.
In addition to the grey nurse sharks, he has seen hammerheads, mako sharks, lots of bronze whalers and, in four years, four great whites. In early 2019, he spotted what he estimates was a four-metre great white cruising off Bronte Beach, just south of Bondi. He used his megaphone to bellow a warning to surfers. A month or so later, he filmed a juvenile great white grabbing and shaking a fish off Bondi. He rang the lifeguards, who set off a warning siren.
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