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Grand Bahama shark handler, Cristina Zenato featured in Marie Claire magazine
May 8, 2013 - 3:24:29 PM

Photo: Trujillo Paumier

Grand Bahama's shark handler from UNEXSO, Cristina Zenato is being seen in the popular women's magazine Marie Claire in their "Risky Business" feature as one of 10 stories about women who work in dangerous jobs. They describe their feature saying, "Think your workday is stressful? Imagine leaping from 10 stories, hand-feeding sharks, or dismantling bombs. For these professional badasses, danger is just part of the job description."

Zenato writes, "Swimming with sharks was a childhood dream, and I finally did it when I went to the Bahamas on vacation in 1994. I remember those early dives as being full of wonder—there were sharks all around me. I was counting them, breathing with them, almost like a member of their school. I was never afraid, just fascinated. I loved it so much I decided to stay, and by 1995, I was training to be a diving instructor and a shark diver. A year later, I was feeding sharks and have been ever since."

Read the feature Marie Claire article HERE

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