{"id":2188,"date":"2023-03-21T15:25:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T20:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=2188"},"modified":"2023-03-21T15:25:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T20:25:24","slug":"she-shoved-her-hand-in-a-sharks-mouth-what-happened-next-had-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/?p=2188","title":{"rendered":"She Shoved Her Hand In A Shark\u2019s Mouth, What Happened Next Had Everyone\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A diver goes the extra mile to protect sharks, by reaching into their mouths and extracting hooks\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is\u00a0<strong>Cristina Zenato<\/strong>\u00a0and she has a very close relationship with sharks. She\u2019s a professional diver who\u2019s been diving with the ocean\u2019s most feared predator for some 25 years. A member of the Explorers Club (she\u2019s also way into cave diving), her expertise in sharks is especially well tuned with the Caribbean Reef Sharks in the\u00a0Bahamas, where she has an almost zen-like approach to the fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-95.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-2189\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-95.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-95.png 500w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-95-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-95-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-95-293x293.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-95-390x390.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s why some call her the<strong>&nbsp;\u201cShark Whisperer.\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;She has an innate ability to soothe these eight-and-a-half-foot predators into submission with her touch. So much so that she\u2019s been able to remove wayward hooks from the mouths of sharks that have often been there for years (that can\u2019t be comfortable). She says the hooks come from escaping directly off the lines of fishermen or even biting into flailing fish that are already hooked. Regardless, the hooks become permanent markers on the fish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With these powers, which require&nbsp;bravery&nbsp;and trust,&nbsp;<strong>Zenato<\/strong>&nbsp;has recently taken to performing oral surgery on her beloved sharks of the&nbsp;Bahamas, if it can be called that, by removing fishing hooks from their mouths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most of the hooks have been on the inner fringes of the sharks\u2019 mouths, but sometimes they\u2019re embedded deeply inside the mouths. This is when Zenato\u2019s work gets tricky (see video below).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-96.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-2190\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"668\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-96.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-96.png 668w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-96-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-96-293x219.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-96-390x292.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the accompanying footage, the veteran diver places her hand and part of her arm fully inside the mouth of a large shark and extracts the hook just as the shark becomes&nbsp;agitated&nbsp;and swims off, inadvertently brushing Zenato\u2019s face with its tail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now that\u2019s serious dedication. But few are as passionate about sharks as Zenato. Well, word got in Starkville, and every beast with a hook in its mouth came looking for\u00a0<strong>Zenato<\/strong>\u00a0to remove it.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-97.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-2191\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"665\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-97.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-97.png 665w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-97-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-97-293x220.png 293w, https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/image-97-390x293.png 390w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 665px) 100vw, 665px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Original Article: <a href=\"https:\/\/patriotnationpress.com\/she-shoved-her-hand-in-a-sharks-mouth-what-happened-next-had-everyone-2\/\">https:\/\/patriotnationpress.com\/she-shoved-her-hand-in-a-sharks-mouth-what-happened-next-had-everyone-2\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A diver goes the extra mile to protect sharks, by reaching into their mouths and extracting hooks\u2026 This is\u00a0Cristina Zenato\u00a0and she has a very close relationship with sharks. She\u2019s a professional diver who\u2019s been diving with the ocean\u2019s most feared predator for some 25 years. A member of the Explorers Club (she\u2019s also way into cave diving), her expertise in sharks is especially well tuned with the Caribbean Reef Sharks in the\u00a0Bahamas, where she has an almost zen-like approach to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2192,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nakedpolitics.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}