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Daily Mail
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- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE I made a whole documentary tracking down a great white shark to swim with - here's why when I finally found one I had to give up my dream
Bertie Gregory's new documentary follows him as he tries to track down a great white shark to swim with. Sharks Up Close With Bertie Gregory sees the wildlife filmmaker and his team head to South Africa. They hope to dive and record great white sharks hunting seals, without the protection of a cage. Throughout the show, Bertie gets up close with a range of underwater animals including southern right whales and spotted ragged tooth sharks. However, the National Geographic explorer comes across unexpected hurdles in his search for a great white shark. Bertie revealed to MailOnline he thought it would be 'straightforward' to locate one of the most feared sea creatures. They hope to dive and record great white sharks hunting seals, without the protection of a cage 'I thought this was going to be our most straightforward Animals Up Close sort of episode in this season,' he said. 'We're in the third season, and we've done a lot of very challenging things and I thought this was going to be a slam dunk, super easy.' During the show, Bertie and his team eventually manage to locate a great white after much difficulty, swimming in the shallows of a beach. Though they finally get up close to the shark, the 'churned up surf' means the conditions are 'too dangerous' for them to dive with it. 'We had this amazing team there that dived with a lot of great white sharks there before,' he explained. 'The previous few years, the sharks would turn up like clockwork at that time of year, down the seals, and we turned up and Pat, our boat captain, was like, 'Yeah, so we haven't seen a shark yet this year, and the season has been running for two months'.' Bertie admitted: 'I was literally expecting to see several sharks per day for the month or so that we had filming there and that wasn't the case.' Reflecting on his search, Bertie says on the programme: 'Great whites are famous for being killing machines, but I've learnt that they're actually very fragile. And I'm pretty sure my mum will be relieved I didn't manage to dive with one.' Bertie revealed to MailOnline he thought it would be 'straightforward' to locate one of the most feared sea creatures He adds: 'We've spent far too long worrying about great whites when we should be worried for them.' Bertie does manage to get up close with other shark species and in one dramatic scene, dives into the 'Shark cathedral'. He described it as 'one of the most incredible sights I've ever had' and recalled how the sharks were 'hanging like spaceships' in the cave. 'Those ragged tooth sharks have terrifying mouths, just teeth, the teeth are just like pouring out of their mouths,' the filmmaker told MailOnline. 'There's something in the back of your head, your caveman instinct, that's saying this isn't a good idea. There's 50 sharks here that are more than two meters long each, and teeth pouring out of their mouths. 'But then I remember my biology and I'm lucky enough to have spent a lot of time around sharks, and know that we are not on their menu, and because of that, it means I could be in awe and enjoy it.' Despite their formidable mouths, Bertie revealed that ragged tooth sharks are actually 'shy' and can be spooked by simply the bubbles from breathing. He also has a keen eye for behaviours to look out for in sharks, to ensure he is safe when diving so closely with them. 'So sharks are very expressive. They have body language just like humans do, and you can read that body language to see how they are,' Bertie explained. The 'key thing' to note, according to the wildlife expert, is the shape of the shark's body, 'particularly their back and their pectoral fins'. He added: 'If their pectoral fins are flat, that means they're very happy, and if they're pointed down, that means they are either aggressive or spooked or they're not happy. 'They also arch their back when they do that. So if the shark's nice and flat, pectoral fins are nice and flat, they're very happy. 'As soon as those pectoral fins point down and their back arches, that means they're fired up and either they're on the hunt or they've been disturbed by something.'


The Guardian
an hour ago
- The Guardian
The Tree of Authenticity review – talking tree explains Congo's struggle to overcome colonial past
In his first solo directorial feature, photographer and visual artist Sammy Baloji excavates the colonial legacies in the Congo basin, the second largest tropical forest in the world. Building on a decades-spanning archive from the Yangambi National Institute of Agronomic Studies and Research, the film is loosely divided into three sections, each guided by a different voice that speaks to the complicated environmental history of the area. The first segment is informed by the journal entries of Congolese agronomist Paul Panda Farnana. Working both within and outside Belgium's colonial control during the 1910s and 1920s, Farnana wrote of his frustration with the extractive regime, as well as meteorological statistics related to rainfall and temperature, which are narrated in voiceover. This is combined with largely static shots of present-day Congo, where vestiges of colonial buildings lie next to verdant fields, a haunting reminder from a dark past. This cinematic link through time continues with the second narration, taken from the writing of Belgian colonial official Abiron Beirnaert. A stark contrast to Farnana's clear-eyed, political perspective, Beirnaert's contemplations luxuriate in boredom and jadedness. The images that accompany this section are also of sparsely attended archives and abandoned factories that do little to subvert Beirnaert's imperialist outlook. The third voice, however, grants sentience to the ancient tree of the title, bearing witness to decades of Congolese history. This last is a fascinating stylistic choice that encourages us to let go of our anthropocentric approach to climate change, even if giving a tree an inner monologue seems to be a rather facile way to foreground non-human perspectives. Though perhaps leaning too heavily into an academic visual experiment, The Tree of Authenticity offers a fascinating look at how extraction can take many forms, even within the context of sustainability. The Tree of Authenticity is at the ICA from 10 July


Times
11 hours ago
- Times
Live Aid at 40 review — Bob Geldof answers his critics with bristly brio
How have I only just discovered that when the U2 lead singer, Bono, visited the White House, George W Bush confused him with the man once married to Cher? Bush told this story with a chuckle in Live Aid at 40 (BBC2). I suspect it's his regular party ice-breaker. An aide had said he was about to meet Bono to discuss giving more money to Africa. 'You know who Bono is, don't you?' the adviser asked. 'Yeah,' replied the president. 'He married Cher.' Meaning Sonny Bono, who was dead. A Google search reveals the story has been circulating for about ten years. Shame on me for missing it. You may wonder what more there can possibly be to say about Live Aid, the 1985 concert watched by 1.5 billion people, aka 'the day that rock and roll changed the world' and when Paul McCartney was given a duff microphone. Not because it wasn't a spectacular achievement. It was. But because so much about it has already been said, debated, raked over. Not least the question of whether a bunch of mostly pale pop stars with bouffant hair and loud jackets raising money for starving Ethiopians was a classic case of 'white saviour'. (Bob Geldof recently called this 'bollocks' in The Times.) • Read more TV reviews, guides about what to watch and interviews Well, to use an insensitive metaphor, Live Aid at 40 had plenty of fresh meat to bring to the table. I feared three hours, covering Band Aid, Live Aid and its 2005 successor, Live 8, would be too long but it is fresh, multifaceted and zesty, serving up a nostalgic slice of British politics through the lens of pop with a high calibre of talking heads, not least Birhan Woldu, the little girl we saw dying before our eyes on news footage back then but who survived and, now aged 44, appeared in the film with her father. Bono said he couldn't bear to look back at footage of himself playing the concert because of his terrible mullet hairdo. Fair enough. I too went the way of the mullet in the 1980s to ghastly effect. Geldof, the movement's leader, greyer and even wilder of hair but still fond of an f-bomb, said he hadn't initially wanted Queen to play because 'I just thought it was overblown; operatic. 'We use the studio as an instrument'? Oh, f*** off.' He now realised, he said with a smile, that he was wrong. Queen are widely considered to be the concert's highlight. He has said the series doesn't feature enough of the music and I agree. The interviewees were honest. Here was Dawit Giorgis, then Ethiopia's minister for aid, saying that Geldof, Midge Ure et al hadn't 'done their homework' regarding the lyrics of the hugely successful Band Aid single Do They Know It's Christmas? 'Ethiopians are the oldest Christians in the world, so that offended us …' he said, also quibbling the line 'where nothing ever grows, no rain nor rivers flow'. Ethiopia has many rivers, he said. One is the Blue Nile. We can all cringe at the 'clanging chimes of doom' etc but what astounding feats Geldof, the 'mad general' of the operation, and his team pulled off. The word 'passion' is overused but how laudable Geldof's determination was to tackle famine rather than scoff free canapés and champagne at showbiz vanity parties. Yes, it was unfortunate that more black artists didn't feature. Kolton Lee, editor of The Voice, said that despite the obvious good intentions it felt 'white' and 'paternalistic', and named some black bands that should have featured. Interesting to see Geldof's businesslike retort to such a charge. Basically: yes, but at that time they weren't selling records and the gig needed bands that were. He wished there had been a Stormzy figure then but there wasn't. It was 'an entirely practical, logical endeavour' to draw the world's attention. The object was to 'stop people dying'. • The best hidden gem TV shows and series to watch The movement's achievements have been huge — billions of dollars sent to Africa to fight HIV and Aids; $40 billion of third-world debt cancelled. The series reflects skilfully the sheer, complex effort this took. It evoked a simpler, more analogue time, a 'can-do' optimistic age with less cynicism and no trolls on social media, when you could scramble together a Wembley concert at short notice in the pre-download era, when people still bought vinyl singles and everyone, young and old alike, recognised the singers. And it brought back to us those shining lights who are now sadly dead such as Paula Yates, George Michael, Freddie Mercury and David Bowie. But what it mostly showed is, despite repeated charges of the 'do-gooder white saviour', what an intelligent, compassionate, bristly and utterly driven man Geldof is. At the very end, Tony Blair says that what he, Bono and others have done has resulted in probably millions of people living who otherwise would have died, 'and I don't think there's any type of remote ideological argument that should stand in the way of that'. How many people can claim a legacy like that?★★★★☆ Love TV? Discover the best shows on Netflix, the best Prime Video TV shows, the best Disney+ shows , the best Apple TV+ shows, the best shows on BBC iPlayer, the best shows on Sky and Now, the best shows on ITVX, the best shows on Channel 4 streaming, the best shows on Paramount+ and our favourite hidden gem TV shows. Don't forget to check our critics' choices to what to watch this week and browse our comprehensive TV guide