What I got hooked on in college was fish, or, to be really specific, sharks.” Ellen laughed. “What an awful thing to fall in love with. It’s like having a passion for rats.” “That’s what most people think,” said Hooper. “But they’re wrong. Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They’re beautiful—God, how beautiful they are! They’re like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They’re as graceful as any bird. They’re as mysterious as any animal on earth.
