"For me working one on one with sharks is everything. The one thing I have learned through the years is that sharks are extremely intelligent animals and they are trying to communicate with us, we are just too blind, or dumb to understand what they are saying. My hope is with enough time spent with these amazing animals their voices will one day be heard loud and clear."

"There have been some awe inspiring moments when I have been around sharks. Moments that have often left me in disbelief that it actually happened. Sometimes when something magical like that happens, and I am down there, my emotions get overloaded, and I am left just drained, and humbled by what nature has just allowed me to witness. It truly is an amazing feeling."

"The first time I interacted with a tiger, where they started spinning for me, I was scared, becuase this was a brand new behavior demonstrated for me. Where a tiger would volunteer its belly to me, which is their most vulnerable state of being - for them to do that with me was really such an amazing feeling. I did not know what to do, it frightened me a bit, because what that told me was I was moving out of my comfort zone and moving into a brand new level of being, and interacting with sharks. The sharks were teaching me something new, and I had to learn and listen fast."

"I am humbled and privilaged that I get to work with sharks as my career. I am a story teller, that is my job, that is who I am. And my life's work is to tell the shark's story. That is what I am supposed to do, so for me to do that properly, I need to push the envelope, and often times tell the stories that no one wants to hear, or the stories that need to be told. Because for me, the only way my life is going to make sense is if I do everything to ensure that sharks survive past this new extinction period that is man made...nothing else matters."