Mermaid Minute #10: Caribbean Reef Sharks (Watch Video)
In this new series on Scubaverse.com we are sharing Linden Wolbert’s video series ‘Mermaid Minute’.
The “Mermaid Minute” is an ocean educational web series for children. Each action-packed episode explores one subject, creature or habitat about our oceans for 60 seconds.
Professional Mermaid Linden Wolbert is a real mermaid whose passion is educating children about the wonders of our oceans, swimming safety and ocean conservation as well as exploration and inspiring our world’s youngest ocean ambassadors.
This is Episode #10 of the Mermaid Minute, the only ocean education web series hosted by a mermaid!
One of the most common sharks in the Caribbean, these sharks are beautiful and sleek, reaching up to 10 feet (3 meters) in length. Caribbean Reef sharks DO NOT EAT PEOPLE. They feed on bony fish, stingrays and other critters on the reef. These sharks can experience something called TONIC IMMOBILITY. When their nose is rubbed by a highly trained diver in a NEPTUNIC SHARKSUIT, they go into a trance-like state! CRISTINA ZENATO, known as the SHARK DANCER, is an expert on this phenomenon and has been working with Caribbean Reef Sharks for more than 15 years in the Bahamas. Sharks love Cristina as much as she loves them! Sharks MUST be conserved, and the Caribbean Reef Shark is considered a NEAR THREATENED SPECIES. They are protected in Bahamian waters where people are taking action to educate everybody about them. I LOVE Caribbean Reef Sharks! They are beautiful, and they keep our oceans in balance. So let’s learn to love and respect these beautiful creatures that we call SHARKS!
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