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MERCED, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A UC Merced prof who is simply a shark adept got the acquisition of a beingness and volition beryllium featured connected Discovery Channel's Shark Week.
UC Merced officials accidental that Professor Sora Kim volition beryllium featured connected Shark Week arsenic she swims with large achromatic sharks and discusses an tremendous legendary oversea carnal that takes connected antithetic forms successful antithetic cultures but has a ground successful science.
The mythological oversea monster that volition beryllium referenced successful the occurrence is Leviathan, which has been drawn successful assorted forms passim the ages, and referenced successful specified books arsenic the book and "Moby Dick." UC Merced officials accidental that it is represented arsenic a serpent oregon dragon, though immoderate scientists and artists depicted the oversea monster arsenic conscionable an tremendous whale.
Officials accidental Hazmat Productions, the institution that makes shows with a “Jaws vs.” taxable each year, flew Kim retired to New Zealand’s Stewart Island implicit UC Merced’s outpouring interruption to movie the episode.
According to UC Merced's website, Kim is simply a shark ecologist who studies animals done the isotopes recovered successful insubstantial samples, but she is particularly funny successful shark teeth arsenic they are preserved successful the fossil record.
UC Merced officials accidental that though she has been scuba diving and snorkeling, this volition beryllium the archetypal clip successful her vocation that she cage-dived with large achromatic sharks.
“I was struck by however funny and agile they are and however accelerated they tin move. They would travel successful truly accelerated and crook truthful rapidly to aquatics past the cage," Kim said.
Kim worked with Shark Week past twelvemonth and was accompanied by a shark adept and a conservationist.
Kim's occurrence volition beryllium featured connected the prime-time, premiere-night occurrence connected Sunday, July 7 astatine 9 p.m. EDT oregon 6 p.m. PST.
