NEW YORK, July 7 (UPI) --Australian Navy diver and marine life conservationist Paul De Gelder says a "hectic" year led to him starring in five new Shark Week specials for Discovery.De Gelder will ...

Paul De Gelder: Well, I was never really interested in sharks. I just wanted them to stay away from me. I was a Navy bomb disposal diver and so I was always diving in super murky water with ...

He was their prey, then became their protector. Paul De Gelder was a diver in the Australian Navy, running counter-terrorism exercises in Sydney Harbor. In 2009, a 9-foot bull shark mistook him for… ...

Shark Week continues on Tuesday, July 22, with the special “How to Survive a Shark Attack.” The special airs at 9 p.m. ET on ...

Paul de Gelder, who stars in the new Discovery Channel special "How to Survive a Shark Attack," shares tips on how to stay ...

Now a bonanza of viewership, the 37-year-old event that launched as a meager presentation of 10 basic programs and has also ...

De Gelder is a former Navy diver who survived a near-fatal undersea attack. He became a shark conservation advocate after ...

I think it's one of the best movies ever made. And my concern is not about Jaws the movie or any other shark movie. It's in ...

A man from Australia who survived a shark attack has shared the one thing you should never do in a situation where the ...

De Gelder, a Shark Week veteran of over a decade, has built a career on surviving the unthinkable. While working as a Navy ...

He was an Australian Navy clearance diver when he nearly died in a bullhead shark attack. This year, he taunts them on ...

Ironically, de Gelder, 36, was able to channel his experience into an appreciation for the deadly predator. “The more you learn about sharks the more you want to spend time around them,” de ...