The image of the great white shark has been shared so widely, and discussed so passionately, she said, that she has had little time to concentrate on anything else.
“Just on my Instagram page alone it has received more than 350,000 likes,” said Brewer, who teaches grades 1-5.
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The image shows a great white shark looking as ferocious as a shark can look, with its jaws wide-open and fully extended, lunging after two fish heads tied to a rope.
On Facebook the image has been making the rounds on pages devoted to sharks and, especially, white sharks.
There it has drawn praise, but also criticism from folks who do not know the back story, and who claim that the use of bait so close to a metal cage is dangerous for lunging sharks.
She told GrindTV that as a summer intern she was helping to collect scientific data, jotting down everything she could about individual sharks, including unique markings (for ID purposes) and behavior. She also was on board to interact with tourists, to ease their concerns about cage-diving with apex predators.
She confessed that she did not even own a camera before she purchased a GoPro just days before her trip.
It was on a down day that she was able to dive in the cage without having to concentrate on work. She wore a mask but no scuba gear, as the cage was only partially submerged.
Visibility was poor, but she kept her head at or close to sea-level, occasionally looking down.
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