Sharks Unhooked: The Adventures of Cristina Zenato, Underwater Ranger
Most of the year Cristina lived in Africa in what was once Zaire while Papà Cesare helped build a railroad and Mamma Vanna worked in the office Cristina and her friends played with monkeys tiptoed among snakes and rescued rhinoceros beetles But she missed the sea
Every summer Cristina returned to her beloved ocean off the coast of Italy to glide with fish free dive for shells and snorkel above octopuses sending hatchlings out to sea She imagined becoming an underwater ranger protecting the deep blue together with her shark friends
She wanted to learn to scuba dive so she could breathe underwater But although Papà inspired Cristina to love the sea he said scuba diving was too dangerous And Cristina only ever saw sharks in movies never in the wild Not once SCUBA Shark Life SCUBA WATER SHARKS under the Sea owing
