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The Shark Whisperer
Donald Nelson spent his life undoing the damage that Jaws did to the perception of sharks.
“Here was this 4-meter tiger shark looking at Don as if he were a somewhat impaired, large, marine organism—perhaps a strange sea turtle,” recalled colleague and former graduate student Samuel Gruber in a eulogy to Nelson published in 2001. Courtesy of the Shark Lab at California State University.A fiberglass contraption, the SOS allowed Nelson to lie on his belly and look out on the underwater world, controlling it with fins and a small motor. These shows reached millions of viewers each week, and much of his footage still appears on television today—for example, Nelson’s work featured in the popular 2019 documentary Deep Blue, about the largest great white shark ever recorded.
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