Wired magazine taps actor Leonardo DiCaprio to cover its January 2016 Survival issue. The 41-year-old actor opens up to the magazine about three times he had a close encounter with death. In one situation, DiCaprio survived an unexpected shark attack. The Revenant star explains, “A great white jumped into my cage when I was diving in South Africa. Half its body was in the cage, and it was snapping at me. They leave the tops open and you have a regulator line running to the surface. Then they chum the water with tuna.”
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DiCaprio continues, “A wave came and the tuna sort of flipped up into the air. A shark jumped up and grabbed the tuna, and half its body landed inside the cage with me. I sort of fell down to the bottom and tried to lie flat. The great white took about five or six snaps an arm’s length away from my head. The guys there said that has never happened in the 30 years they’d been doing it.” Read more on Wired.com.
