Fear

Photo: Rodney Fox at the South Australian Spear Fishing Championships, Aldinga Beach, 1962. Image courtesy of Fox Shark Research Foundation.

We must learn to live with and understand all sharks including the Great White Sharks and not kill them simply out of fear.

Rodney Fox, 2001

While participating in a spear-fishing tournament off Aldinga Beach south of Adelaide in 1963, Rodney Fox was nearly bitten in half by a great white. Held together by his wet suit, he was rushed to a hospital, where 462 stitches were required to sew him up.

Rodney was back in the water in less than three months and has devoted much of his life to understanding the behaviour of the great white shark.

He is regarded as one of the world's foremost authorities on the great white shark and he has been involved in numerous expeditions, movies, books and scientific studies of the shark.

In the Eternity gallery you can see the jaws of a great white shark and record a story about your fear.