“It was natural from the movies that you’d get scared of them,” Smith said. A sharks swims past the Shark Week logo inside the Shark Experience at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom in Vallejo. It was a very cool experience,” Smith said, adding that he’s always been “fascinated” by sharks. It was a weird calmness, just very content. Smith vividly remembered his first day diving with the sharks last Nov.
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The opportunity to work with sharks “was brought upon me and I attacked it at full force,” Smith said. “I’ve always wanted to be a diver,” he said. “Don’t freak out,” said Smith, 26, whose quest to earn a living in the water goes back to his fascination with Aquaman. Smith joined the dive team last November and recalled Paiva’s first words of wisdom. Paiva said most of her old classmates at Wood wouldn’t be surprise to learn she dives with sharks because “I’ve always been kind of a tough cookie,” though when she told her mother “I was going to be diving with sharks for a living, she was a little freaked out.” Diver Erin Paiva, from Vacaville, cleans the side of the entrance tube as visitors walk in to the Shark Experience at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom. “It shows me I need to go out and explain to the world what’s wrong with this picture.” Wood High School graduate sees sharks on television misrepresented, “honestly, it inspires me to educate more,” Paiva said.
“I get to tell people I swim with sharks and take care of these incredible animals that most people don’t know anything about,” Paiva said. We learn something every day.”īesides, it’s not a bad ice breaker at parties. “I was able to appreciate them a lot more. (Chris Riley–Times-Herald)Īs for sharks, “Oddly enough, my interest (in sharks) wasn’t until i got older and learned more about them,” Paiva said. I love it.” Ray Conrado wears a shark hat as he watches diver swim over the entrance tube inside the Shark Experience at Six Flags Discovery Kingdom on Thursday. “I got offered the position and took a leap of faith straight to the shark tank,” she said. Paiva had no diving experience when she joined Six Flags.
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