Face to face with Great Whites
Monday 1 October 2012
Face to face with Great Whites
VIDEO: Mossman's Yolly Bosiger continues her underwater adventures, this time braving cold, grey South Australian waters to come face to face with one of the most powerful creatures of the deep - the Great White Shark.
Here is an excerpt from Yolly's blog and we'll keep you up to date with her travels.
Valerie and Ron Taylor have been hero’s to me since I was little kid and so getting to have dinner with them definitely fulfilled one of my life long dreams. I sat next to Valerie during dinner and was completely captivated by her amazing stories.
It is certainly not every day that you get to meet someone who has been involved in pioneering underwater film and photography, has been inducted into the American Woman Divers Hall of Fame, has won the American Nature Photographer of the year, has a moray eel friend called Honey, and has dived with Mick Jagger. I mean common that is AMAZING!
Later on in the week I met with Chris Miller, a well-known filmmaker for the television show Getaway. Chris had kindly offered to do a professional TV interview with me with respect to our recent trip in South Australia. First off, I have to say that I was completely blown away when I walked into Chris’s apartment.
This was a camera and video camera enthusiast’s heaven. Video cameras, stills cameras and tripods all neatly positioned around the room – it was like a mini museum and I greatly enjoyed learning a bit more about underwater camera and video history.
Okay so I have to admit, being interviewed by Chris was a pretty nerve racking experience. It required me to think on my feet and be spontaneous having no prior knowledge of questions to be asked. Luckily Chris and Jayne made me feel right at home and amazingly, I actually got through the questions with relatively few extra takes. I am so grateful to have learned such a useful skill and I really feel like I will be a lot better prepared for doing this kind of interviewing in future. Check out Chris Miller’s incredible video of South Australia.
