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BBC presenter Simon Reeve reveals whale shark 'the size of a bus' left him with a scar on his leg after he 'foolishly' jumped into the water to swim with it while filming


The documentary maker and journalist, 51, was filming off the coast of the island of New Guinea when he 'foolishly' jumped into the water with a whale shark.

BBC presenter Simon Reeve has revealed he was wounded by a shark 'the size of a bus' and left with a huge scar on his leg in an ill-fated diving incident. BBC presenter Simon Reeve has revealed he was wounded by a shark 'the size of a bus' and left with a huge scar on his leg in an ill-fated diving incident In it, he visits Patagonia, the Kalahari Desert, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Pacific Ocean's Coral Triangle, where he said he had the dangerous encounter with the whale shark.

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