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I enter the water again with my fingers crossed
我交叉着手指再次下水
we head to the bottom engulfed in near darkness
我们一头扎进了被黑暗笼罩的海底，
the bottoms covered in beautiful anemones
底部生长着美丽的海葵
and a crab scurries away from my lights
灯光下一只螃蟹在快速地爬行
Sylvan does his best to attract the Sharks clicking his rocks together
Sylvan敲击着岩石努力吸引着鲨鱼
but nothing shows up the water's just too warm
但是一无所获，水温太高了
fifty-five degrees in the bottom
海底温度达五十五度
another dive with no sharks
又是一次没有鲨鱼的潜水
normally I'd be thrilled with water that's 20 degrees too warm I mean who doesn't love warm water
通常情况下，如果水温达到二十度，我就会很开心，谁不喜欢温水呢
but these are Arctic sharks they like really cold water
但是格陵兰鲨鱼是北极鲨，它们喜欢冰冷的海水
so if I want to find any sharks I got to find some cold water and that probably means we're gonna have to dive deep
所以如果我想找到鲨鱼，就必须去冷水区，这可能意味着我们必须潜入深海
the next day we move the boat a little further from shore
第二天，我们驾船来到离海岸更远的地方
down on the bottom it's so dark my camera can barely produce an image of Silva in the Twilight at 110 feet
海底太黑了，我的相机在110英尺的深水中几乎无法形成Silva的照片
but good news the water is cold at this depth
但庆幸的是深水区的水温很低
we only wait a few minutes and then out of the darkness comes a big shape
我们只等了几分钟，黑暗中就出现了一个巨大的身影
it's a Greenland shark I can't believe it just like Silva said it's coming over to give me a look
是格陵兰鲨鱼，我简直不敢相信，就像Silva说的，格陵兰鲨鱼会过来看我一眼
no Chum no bait just pure curiosity
没有狗鲑，没有诱饵，只是好奇而已
what an odd looking shark with a big round body in a small mouth filled with rows of tiny razor-sharp teeth
格陵兰鲨鱼长的很奇怪，它的身体又大又圆，嘴巴里满是一排排锋利的小牙齿
most of my encounters with sharks are in warm clear water it's so weird to be swimming with a huge shark like this in cold murky water
我遇到的大多数鲨鱼都生活在温暖清澈的水中，和这样一条巨鲨在冰冷浑浊的水中游泳，感觉很奇怪
the shark is more than ten feet long
格陵兰鲨鱼长达十多英尺
but it's only a small one Greenland sharks reach a massive 21 feet making them among the largest carnivorous sharks in the world
但只有少量的格陵兰鲨鱼能长到21英尺高，使得格陵兰鲨鱼成为世界上最大的食肉鲨鱼之一
yet studies suggest they grow extremely slowly less than an inch a year
然而研究表明，格陵兰鲨鱼的生长速度极其缓慢，每年生长不到一英寸
so this 10 footer may be a hundred years old and that's nothing researchers think the Greenland shark may live to be 200 years old
这条10英尺长的鲨鱼可能有100岁了，研究人员认为格陵兰鲨鱼可以活到200岁
even though it's said that these sharks don't see well
据说这些鲨鱼的视力不太好
this one appears to be watching me his eye following my every move
这只鲨鱼似乎在注视着我，注视着我的一举一动
the shark stays with me for 15 minutes swimming slowly and not presenting any threat to me at all
鲨鱼和我待了15分钟，慢慢地游泳，对我没有任何威胁
he just seems curious but soon he picks up the pace and I can no longer keep up
它只是看起来很好奇，但很快就加快了步伐，我再也跟不上了
he swims into the gloom and my dive is over because I'm low on air
格陵兰鲨鱼朝黑暗中游去，我的潜水也结束了，因为氧气低了
Silva and I head back to the surface
Silva和我返回地面
whew I finally see the Greenland shark
我终于看到了格陵兰鲨鱼
we decided to go a little deeper 110 feet just so you get into that colder water
我们决定深入110英尺，这样就能进入更冷的水域
and when we got down there freezing cold and then out of the darkness came like big huge Greenland shark
当我们下到那里的时候，非常寒冷，然后从黑暗中钻出一个巨物，就像格陵兰鲨鱼一样
it was incredible
难以置信
on the way back to the dock I still can't believe what an amazing encounter I just had
在回到码头的路上，我仍然不能相信我刚刚经历了一次多么奇妙的邂逅
sometimes all the effort is worth it in the end
有时你付出的所有努力最终都是值得的
