Psychological Control

Chapter 47

God's perspective, the shark incident, on Brian.

All Dillon could see in front of him was the young shark, lured by the smell of blood, but that wasn't what worried him, he was more worried that the mother of the young shark was also on her way not far away.

The longest he could hold his breath was a minute and fifty seconds, but it was now nearly a minute and a half. To ensure the safety of the photographer, he had to sit and wait while the only weapon he had, a metal harpoon, could not be used. But this was not a long-term solution.

The plan had been to risk another serious injury to his left arm and prepare to be pre-empted by the move. But out of the corner of his eye, Dillon suddenly noticed Brian, who was slowly diving over to the other side. Brian's pale complexion and red hair were actually incredibly conspicuous in the clear turquoise water.

The sunlight hitting it had the illusion of reflecting the glittering, red-haired mermaid, and Dillon finally knew why he had been given the title of a siren. It definitely wasn't just because of his fishing and swimming abilities, the previous jibe had been true. By now Brian had slowly raised his harpoon in his hand in a ready position to attack.

Just as the shark sensed the approach of yet another creature, Dillon hastily stabbed the sea fish, which was still oozing blood from the tip of the harpoon, forward and in front of the shark. Then in the blink of an eye, the young shark had opened its mouth in a tail-swinging dash and bitten the fish into its mouth.

The fish was in its mouth, however, but at the same time the spike at the end of Dillon's harpoon was bitten in with it.

Brian seemed to be waiting for this moment, as Dillon desperately held the shark's struggle with both hands and drove his harpoon into its body. Brian's slim, slender legs hit the water hard a few times and swam a few metres closer before the mechanism on the harpoon in his hand was opened to stab the shark in the head and neck.

The mechanism on the head of this harpoon was sharper than a blade and it pierced the shark's skin in one swift motion! Dillon gestured downstream at Brian, intending to use the force at the bottom of the sea to nail the harpoon even more rigidly into the shark. Brian and he were so in tune with each other that they didn't need to repeat the action, and with a single stomp the two of them were swimming downstream.

By now they had long forgotten about the cameraman who was following Dillon and had just stiffened behind him. The photographer, seeing the crisis lifted, surprisingly had the balls to be very dedicated and began to follow them down the dive. The scene of their shark slaughter was also faithfully recorded by this cameraman's lens.

Sinking to the bottom, the two men thrust the shark stuck in the top of the harpoon towards the sand, and then again! A few strokes later the harpoon pole was inside the young shark, which was desperately struggling to survive. Only then did they plan to head upstream to the surface.

Both men were carrying their harpoons in one hand and at the end of them was their trophy, a shark over a metre long enough to feed an entire tribe! The photographer follows the two men and gives a close-up of the dead juvenile shark. The two metal harpoons pierced crosswise through its body looked particularly shocking.

The photographer just felt that it had been worth the trip! He was already an adventurous man, otherwise he would not have chosen to become a cameraman for the survivors. Wouldn't some of the other studio cameramen on TV shows have had a more comfortable and relaxing job than this?

To know that this collaborative hunt between Brian and Dillon had allowed him to capture some of the most memorable footage of his own camera career! And the cameraman knew that this shot would probably become one of the rare and truly iconic sequences in the twenty or so seasons of Survivor!