Сделайте краткий пересказ "A lot of it wasn't acting. It was real fear. It should have been stunt people," says Cove. "But the budget was too small to do that." Cove grew up in the Bahamas. At 19, he was an experienced diver, but he had no idea, when he started working on the James Bond film, For Your Eyes Only, that he would have to work with tiger sharks. ‘One day they said to us, "OK, we are going to release the shark. If the shark comes to you, jump on its back. Then they said "Stuart, you’re one of the guys." And I thought ‘Are you out of your mind?’ But then they said, "You’ll get $150." And, well ... as a teenager in 1979. that’s a pile of money. Today, Cove charges around $10,000 for two to three days shooting with a tiger shark. "Honestly I was scared to death," Cove says. During the first take, the shark escaped - much to Coves relief. Pretending to look for the lost animal, he was amazed to find it struggling at the edge of the set, trapped in a net. "So I grabbed it and it tried to bite me, and then it relaxed. I swam it back and suddenly I was the hero who saved the whole day’s shooting.” After that, Cove became one of the chief shark handlers. He never told anyone he'd found the shark in the net! Out at the dive site, I asked him what I should do it i m actually attacked by one of the sharks he s feeding. Try taking your arms in," he said, "and avoid moving." But in fact, despite their reputation, many species of shark are very fussy eaters. Cove has seen sharks take bait such as chicken or lobster into their mouths, taste it then spit it out. Same goes for divers; when the sharks accidentally bite the feeders’ hands, the animals immediately realise their mistake when they taste a wetsuit. Despite this. Cove himself has been bitten three times by sharks Once he was bitten on the hand. "It was the worst pain I’ve ever felt,” he says. "The teeth go very deep." Still, he insists that each time he has been doing all the things for the camera you shouldn’t do: waving his hands around in the water unprotected. For some shoots Cove and his staff have even simulated shark attacks. They strap food between a chain-mail suit and their clothing and let sharks tear it off them. "That s dangerous because they can actually rip your wetsuit and flesh ... yeah, it’s not smart. But you know, he says, for fame and fortune. You don’t mind doing anything.”
