Cristina Zenato

Cristina Zenato Instagram – The shark approached slowly, gently gliding over my back, slightly hidden by the morning light shining through the water. Her belly was skillfully blended by millions of years of evolution as I looked up.
I took a quick image and lowered the camera; I have been here before and seen them many times, but, for a moment, their stories passed through my eyes.
I saw an ocean teaming with bountiful sharks, fish, creatures; I saw a world that belonged to them for much longer than we can record in our books and imagine in our studies.
In her movement I read the story of an ocean that never included us, yet so necessary for our survival on this planet.
I watched as she swam away, never coming closer, and sent with her a wish that we see and understand her value and of all of the others, that we will change our ways, we will pause to let them tell us their stories, before it’s too late and we cannot record.
Extinction is forever.
Image with @isotta_underwater_housings on @shark_explorers for the liveaboard educational trip @kewinlorenzen and I organize several times per year.
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