Drama! Turns out Michael Phelps did NOT really race next to a great white shark. But he had a great answer for disappointed fans.
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00:00Ready? Swimmers, take your mark. Go!
00:30For those who are disappointed, I'm sorry for that. You know, we were next to a seal
00:53colony so technically we are in open, we are in shark territory. You can believe whatever
00:58you want. Everything was either presented on air during multiple interviews that I did
01:06throughout Shark Week or the beginning of the show. We did mention everything up front,
01:14James. Some people just decide not to listen to some of the things that we do and that's
01:20not my fault that you don't do that. It's pretty easy to open up your ears and listen
01:26to either what the TV is saying, what announcers are saying, or what I'm saying in interviews.
01:31It wasn't a fake shark. It was actually a real shark that we had swim in a straight
01:36line. You know, if somebody actually wants to get in the water and race side by side
01:40with a great white, go ahead. You're not going to get the shark to swim in a straight line.
01:44And yeah, it would be interesting to see. We'll leave it at that.