he said. "And to be honest, we did not know."
Now, he said, the Shark Lab's research shows white sharks are intelligent, apex predators for a reason, and they largely know humans are not dinner.
"Flash forward 20 years later, based on all our drone data, I swim with these white sharks every day, and I have no qualms doing it," Lowe said.
"How do we explain the fact that people are around white sharks every day, some 9-, 10-, 12-, 14-feet long, and are not being bitten?
They've learned that we're not food."
Obviously incidents do happen, and Lowe said it was unclear why sharks occasionally bite people.
The most common go-to explanation is mistaken identity, possibly with sharks that haven't been around many people.
But they are extremely uncommon when you consider the number of sharks in the water and the amount of people on a hot summer's day.
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"As I'm speaking to you, a white shark is swimming by a surfer or swimmer who doesn't know the shark is there," Lowe said.
