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I Was a Trojan Shark

Tucked inside a robotic great white, filmmaker Fabien Cousteau captures rare footage of the deep-sea world

At 1,200 pounds and 14 feet long, "Troy" is chunkier than the average great white shark. He might smell kind of funny too. But do the pods of sharp-toothed predators he swam among last winter know that, inside, there's just a man? Or that it was Fabien Cousteau, grandson of pioneering undersea explorer Jacques, surreptitiously recording their every movement?

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