Have you ever said to your friends you like dolphins better than sharks, and then they asked you why? Well of course, but then you are not very sure, so what do you say? You might say because they eat people (they don’t) or they are not cute and they are evil but you are super wrong. I love dolphins but I like sharks better because first of all, you can swim with them, secondly, they are predators but are becoming prey and they keep the echo system of the ocean balanced.
After my dad told me about the sharks being endangered I started studying about them. I found out you can swim with them. When I was about 7 we went to Manly, in Sydney then one day my mom found out we could join a club The Mermaid Club or The Shark Club. I had to join the shark club because the mermaid club was closed. First I was a bit upset but then after our team captain told us we were going to swim in the tanks of the aquarium I was so pleased. I got to swim with all kinds of sharks especially I think the Hammerhead my favorite! But why did it not attack me? Because they are not Cold Killers! Sharks would never attack you on purpose like a crocodile would.
Sharks are top predators just like dolphins but they are also prey. A man called Rob went to Japan to protect the sharks. He joined a team that was also trying to protect them too. One day they came up to a fishermen boat they told them to stop and let them bring them to the port but any time they came closer to them they would just kill more, they had to attack them with water pistols. My dad said some people care more about the money then the lives, and I could see he was right because I could see what does people were doing and I knew now that it wasn’t just in fiction books of people who were greedy. The shark fins are very precious and that is why people fish them more than dolphins.
So you see sharks are very important. They protect our beautiful ocean by keeping it clean eating rays so they don't take over the ocean (to many of them) they eat the fishes that eat the coral and other things that are important. You also have to know that more people get hurt with other animals like squirrels and that we are the real monsters and that we destroy the homes of innocent creatures just like sharks. If you never knew this sharks are scared of us and hate us for food. So next time someone tells you sharks are bad think twice.
