I'm about to swim with some sharks.
It’s 7 a.m.
and I'm on the island of Maafushi
in the Maldives
and I'm about to go
for a big day in the ocean.
My name is Pablo.
With me Mark.
We’ll be feeding the stingrays.
So for the first stop today
we’re in this local island called Fulidhoo,
where people are feeding stingrays.
And there's a lot of
stingrays in the water.
There's a lot of people here
that are touching the stingrays.
I don't know how I feel about that.
I don't know
if you're supposed to do that.
So for our next stop,
we are going to this
nearby spot to see nurse sharks
and snorkel with them.
And I'm frickin terrified of this.
Like, I couldn't sleep last night
because I was so scared.
So might not actually do it.
But we're going to go right there
and maybe I'll give it a shot.
By the way,
nurse sharks are not dangerous,
but they do have teeth and they can bite
and they have given a friend of a
friend of mine stitches recently.
I'm pretty scared
Oh, yeah,
Is it recording?
I don't know.
They are not that bad.
I'm on the back of the boat.
And you can see this guy
like feeding the sharks
And that big pool of sharks right
there is where I was just
for like 5 minutes
swimming in the middle of them.
And I was terrified.
I was trying my best to like,
look at the camera that this guy had
and not at the fish.
But these sharks really
don't.. really don't care about me.
Like at one point
I think there were like
two or three of them touching my legs and
I was terrified,
but they were just trying to swim by
and I was just,
you know,
trying my best not to be in their way.
But this is insane.
This is the craziest thing
I've done in a long time.
So now we're about to go
snorkeling at a shipwreck.
So we've come to a deserted
sandbank in the middle
of the Indian Ocean.
I hope you can hear me.
And
we're going to have lunch here.
And maybe it's not super deserted
because there's like
that thing over there
where people are posing for pictures
and this is gorgeous.
There’s like
white sand and turquoise waters.
It's pretty cool.
This wind is wild. Ouch the sand hurts
my legs.
It is starting to rain.
Now it's time to go back.
The contrast is really interesting.
This Russian couple is
dancing in the water, in the rain
and making videos
and I'm like under an umbrella.
I'm trying to not get my camera wet
and I'm not flying the drone,
by the way,
because
I don't know if I can recover it if..
Oh, shit, look at this. Look at this..
So that's why I
am not flying the drone.
It's raining way too hard,
so I'm going to eat in the boat.
Stopped raining again.
So we're back to plan A:
eating on the island.
Yesterday was a lot of fun.
That lunch was great.
The chicken tasted a lot like this item
I used to get in Panda Express,
if you've been there.
And then when we came back,
I was just so tired
and it was just so rainy,
I didn't feel like shooting an outro.
So I'm doing this now.
That was
such a cool experience,
you know, like I was so scared
about the nurse sharks thing.
I was even more scared
than I was of like, the actual Galapagos
and like,
tiger sharks
in that video I did in Hawaii
two years ago
because at least
then I was staying like 20 meters away
or ten meters away
and I was with people
who were professionals.
This time
I was just with some tour agency
who probably knew what they're doing,
but like still probably didn't
have the same expertise like researchers
that were taking me
into the ocean in Hawaii.
So I was pretty scared.
I couldn't sleep much, but I got it done.
And that was so much fun.
Like when that shark
rubbed up against my back, I swear
my face must have been like..
I’d seen a ghost or something.
I'm glad you couldn’t see it with the snorkel mask.
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the next video
from probably I'm going scuba
diving for the first
time, so that should be fun.