Marvel star Anthony Mackie swam with sharks in the Gulf of Mexico for the new National Geographic special “Shark Beach with Anthony Mackie' debuting Thursday.
This image released by National Geographic shows actor/host Anthony Mackie wading in the Bayous near Violet, La., during the filming of"Shark Beach with Anthony Mackie ." Mackie has been a certified scuba diver for nearly two decades. “I’ve swam with some crazy stuff, and I’ve swam with sharks before. I just swam with Great Whites in South Africa. I did whale sharks in Mexico. I swam with a blue whale off the coast of Cape Town.”where he is a regular boater and fisherman.
Mackie says he was in the water for about four hours and “it’s not that hard to find a multitude of sharks in the Atlantic Ocean.” Seeing the sharks up-close reminded him “how majestic and powerful they are, but also you just see how beautiful they are.” He was accompanied by marine biologist Jasmine Graham, whom Mackie says was his “security blanket" if it got too intense.
Mackie, whose show will be followed soon by Discovery's Shark Week programing, also hopes to highlight the effects of global climate change on the coastline of New Orleans where. Global warming has both caused snow and ice to melt and it's led to more storms that cause flooding. Also, activity from the oil and gas industry weakens the soil.
"We used to go fishing when I was little and my uncle would put me in the water. I would walk around and field for oysters with my feet, put them in a boat, and we would eat those oysters for lunch. Whole oyster beds are gone."
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