Tanner Mansell

If a shark is coming towards you, you know, just most of the time just staying calm and just maintaining eye contact is going to do the trick.

It's when people start freaking out and flailing around is when they're like, oh, is that a prey?

Why is the energy so high?

Why is this thing looking like prey, right?

I mean, I have a hard time getting sharks close to me most of the time because I'm like wanting them to get close.

We got out there, we jumped in the water, and it was just like these sharks were just swimming within five feet of us, just minding their own business, you know, looking at us, swimming around.

But it was this overwhelming feeling of just calmness and peacefulness.

You know, it was a high, a literal high that lasted months afterwards.

I couldn't go back to what I was doing knowing that that existed.

So I just started reading books.

I started putting everything I could together to be like, okay, how do I exit, you know, this lifestyle that I'm in and start over completely doing this?

You know, there's been...

dozens of times where we've picked people up out in the water.

And so when I saw this buoy, I was thinking to myself, oh, it's probably a scuba diver or trash.

So we did our normal routine.

If it's trash, we'll pick it up.

If it's a diver, we'll help them out, get them back to their boat.

And as we got closer, we realized, OK, it's just some random buoy.

So they're trapped.

They're not getting oxygen.