*It started with blood.
Rodney Fox.
He was (spearfishing) – Australia 1963.
A great white-opened him up.
It broke his ribs and punctured a lung.
He survived, barely.
Most men would quit the ocean forever.
Fox was different, he wanted to go back.
He needed armor though – so, he went to the Adelaide Zoo.
He saw lions pacing behind iron bars – He had a thought.
Put the man in the cage and let the beast roam free – a simple dangerous thing.
He built a galvanized steel box – went back in 1965 to film Attacking Sharks.
So, the thing that almost ate him became his life’s work – He invented the industry not for money, but to look the devil in the eye again.
Cousteau had cages earlier, but Fox made it a sport – He turned a near death thing into a ticket booth.