The Sharkman, Thursday, February 28, Channel 5, 9pm.

Oh my gosh I'm so excited am I'm currently waiting for a channel 5 documentary to come on about a man that works along side great white sharks. Im abit of an animal fanatic so this is right up my street. The Sharkman is renowned worldwide for swimming with these predators without a cage. He was a former fisherman and is on a crusade to show that the huge fish are not bloodthirsty killers but are intelligent and sensitive creatures.
That was the most nerve racking documentary I have ever watched. Now I'll tell a little abit about it.
He swims with these sharks by mimicking their movements and is seen as neither prey or predator, so they happily glide past. It was absolutely amazing watching him swim calmly alongside these great sharks. He has a phenomenal ability to read sharks and doesn't jump straight in the water with any great white, instead he waits for the less agressive females to turn up.

His mission was to immobilize the great white through the process of tonic immobility, this is a natural state of paralysis induced in sharks by massaging their snouts, close to the eyes. The effects last for about 15 minutes. This was one of the best documentary programs I have watched, as It revealed that these mysterious and misunderstood creatures aren't just mind less man eaters and that they actually have a gentler side. This was evident when a female great white allowed Mike to catch a ride on her dorsal fin...wow! It hasn't quite persuaded me to willingly jump in the deep end with them but ill always want to cage dive.