The Dalai Lama's greatest fear is being eaten by sharks

It used to be that the Dalai Lama feared long airplane flights, but he's grown accustomed to them. Now that he's gotten over the fear of flying itself, what most frightens the revered spiritual leader is that the plane will go down, and he'll be eaten by sharks. "Long flights, those I really feared, but now I'm used to them," he said in a recent interview. "The fear now is that I never learnt to swim so if the plane crashes on water, I would immediately go deep under the sea and be enjoyed by a shark. That I really fear."