Swimming With Great Whites Down Under - Carrie Miller

Great white sharks, one of the planet's most feared predators, have always been a source of curiosity for Carrie Miller. So to get closer to the object of her fascination, she got in the water to watch them in their natural habitat, off the coast of Australia's Neptune Islands. Miller tells Boyd that they aren't as mindlessly predatory as they're billed. She found them to be curious rather than malicious, sampling boat motors and pieces of wood they encountered on the surface for edibility. Despite the fact that Miller reports the Great whites to be "calm" at depth, she would never swim with them cage-free. Her article "Down Under: The Great White Way," is in the September/October 2014 issue of National Geographic Traveler magazine.