Would you dive with oceanic whitetip sharks? Be warned, oceanic whitetips are not for beginners. They are built different. They don’t hover at the edge of visibility or casually cruise past. They are interested in you, and will approach head-on. Then they’ll circle back and do it again, studying you closely. It’s intense, but there’s an evolutionary reason behind it. Oceanic whitetips evolved to survive the open ocean, where food is scarce and encounters with other life are rare. For millions of years, being bold and investigative meant staying alive. What they didn’t evolve for is us. Today, their curiosity draws them to fishing boats and tuna longlines, pushing this once abundant predator to the brink of extinction. mitty shares her oceanic whitetip encounter with katiecouricmedia, and explains how small, everyday choices about what we eat could help a species whose survival now depends on us. Read the full story at the link in our bio! Video by paulnicklen #OceanicWhitetip #Sha...