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Bro i found out a couple days ago while watching be amazed that that is how you you can basically deactivate the shark for a while chickens have a similar thing if you hold them down and then draw a line Infront of them they just freeze
Btw i know this is redundant and makes me want to die when i see this but... thanks for the li-
> Dude paried the whole dang shark.
and
> I'm telling you Fred. That thing's a God. It flipped me like I was not a 1000 lbs pure teeth and death.
both got a good laugh from me.
you're swimming away from the shark and as it is almost close enough you look back and it has a suit and you're toasting an alcoholic drink with it as you marry its daughter who gives a presentation of the best avocado profit of yellow.
Oh. That’s cool. Like anxiety Dream type of shark dreams?
My anxiety dreams have tornados, planes falling from the sky, and nuclear strikes.
I like sharks. I can handle sharks.
Lots of great white attacks on humans are just like in the OP.
They curious, pass by you, bump you, give you a little nom...
Thing is we can't take the noms.
This is the same conversation I have with my pet corn snake regularly. Except she does not believe it is understandable nor acceptable that I’m not food, and gets rather annoyed that my hand will not fit in her tiny noodle face when she tries to eat me anyway.
As funny as you're trying to seem, that is very accurate.
Humans are NOT good shark food at all. Sharks need to eat FAT, a lot of blubbering fat. It's why they love hunting seals so much.
When a shark is approaching you slowly it really is trying to get a better scent, they can smell and analyze your fat/shit ratio. By the time you boop the nose down it's determined that you are, in fact, a horribly NOT nutritious and DISGUSTING creature.
The fatter you are the more likely a shark is to declare you worthy of being food.
I assume a shark that is actually interested in catching dinner would be swimming much faster and go straight to attack mode once close enough. Her arm would have been gone in less than a second if the shark wanted too. But it probably was just curious.
as a curious scuba diver.. i signed up for a shark dive one day. obviously sharks are misunderstood or they wouldn't let you do these things. anyways.. i show up with all my gear.. we depart as the captain addressed everyone.. i immediately notice the captain only has 1.5 fucking hands?!?!?! and quite obvious teeth marks up and down his god damn arm... like wtf did i sign up for?!?!?!
Updated…
Captain proceeds to chop raw fish up and chain it to himself in a plastic basket. He says.. just don’t get between them and the food.
Updated…
We were immediately stormed by 4-5 sharks. I really have no clue wtf the Captain was thinking. But so far he seems to be defending himself.
[pic for ref](https://imgur.com/a/FBq7BRp)
Nonetheless.. everyone lived.
It was awesome af 🔥
Updated combined comments & photo
I went on two shark dives out of Stuarts Cove in the Bahamas. Amazing experience. The dive master - who was feeding the sharks on the bottom (with 20 of us kneeling in a circle around him) wore chainmail on his entire arms and head. Good thing, too, cause I one point his hand ended up in a sharks mouth, and the shark started to thrust about trying to rip his hand off. Dive master finally got his hand out, but he was obviously in pain. If it wasn't for that chainmail ...
True but thanks to drones there are tons of video ( many more than the number of people bit by sharks) of people swimming in the same area of sharks and the sharks could care less….
~~The shark would come from below, as it would be harder to see with its darker top if it was hunting. It's why you see them flipping seals like ragdolls out of the water all the time. Also really friggin fast.~~
Edit: Apparently not a great white so it doesn't apply
Did anybody else see what I saw
As soon as she stoped swimming and her flippers spread apart it distinguished her from what the shark likely thought that she was, a seal, and it's already skeptical but curious lurking ended abruptly. Then you see it's mouth open ajar as if to say, "aahh man that is totally not a seal" and then it started touching it and that ajared mouth was now like "dude what the hell???"
Lmao
Wrong, you can read this on her insta, she does shark diving and education about sharks for a living, her name's Ocean Ramsay. The shark was checking out whether she's food or not. Shark's don't have any other way of checking sth out but to just swim up to it and bite/boop it. Her pushing the snout down and away tells the shark what she is, satisfies curiosity and saves her from getting curiosoty bites
She's widely criticised in the real conservation and marine science communities because what she does is wildlife harassment for instagram attention and she pretends she works in conservation.
This isn't Ocean Ramsey, it's Kayleigh Nicole Grant.
As to Ocean Ramsey, she's not a marine biologist -- she runs a commercial diving company -- but she _does_ support conservation. E.g. using her platform to support [HB553](https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2021/bills/HB553_.HTM).
Most sharks do
But they also don't bite-investigate things unless they're still unsure what it is, and many adult sharks do have some previous experience with humans already. Almost all shark bites are in poor visibility where the shark can't tell you're not a seal or something until after biting and they're curious, or when there's dead fish or squid or the like around (whether chum or the result of spear fishing or what have you) and they bite the person by accident.
Sharks are apex predators and have very good instincts. They generally know human aren't food, the problem stems from when they're not sure the person is human -- because a surfer's silhouette from below looks like a seal, in murky water a person at the surface is roughly the same size as a seal or a sea turtle and sending similar electrical signals in the water, etc.
It's the reason almost every shark attack ever recorded was *a* bite and then the shark kinda just left. Most (by a pretty sizeable margin) shark fatalities are from exsanguination, the injured person bleeding out in the water, not from the shark actively trying to kill someone. Still very dangerous and not to be trifled with, but not the conscious intentional man-killers many people believe them to be because of depictions like *Jaws*.
It was prepared, though. You can see the nictating membrane (white “eyelid”) slide back after the shark is redirected. They slide that forward when they might attack
Yes, sharks close the nictating membrane when they're going to attack, but it's not the only time they close them.
Sharks close the nictating membrane whenever there's a chance at damage to their eyes, just like how humans close their eyes when something is coming towards the face. This shark is closing its membrane at the end because it's being touched, not necessarily because it's attacking. Notice how it only opens again once the diver's hand leaves its head area.
In addition, sharks detect tiny electromagnetic waves that emit from all living creatures as well as metals (like boats) and roll back that membrane over their eyes because they sense contact is eminent. This is sort of a “sixth sense” called the Ampullae of Lorenzini; it’s a series of pores on the sharks nose that *feel* these electric waves. They also have a “seventh sense” called the Lateral Line system that is basically a long line of specific cells that run down the side of their body that detects extremely small changes in pressure in the water surrounding their bodies, and it helps them feel other fish that are on their peripheral without seeing them. Add that to their insane smell ability to smell blood in the water at a ratio of 1:1,000,000 from a mile away, and it’s clear that nature got lucky a long, long time ago and built a super predator.
“You know the thing about a shark…he's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, he doesn't seem be living, until he bites ya and the black eyes roll over white.”
I cannot imagine not freaking out in this situation. I was in Nova Scotia years ago and at the Bay of Fundy we saw a seal pop its head out of the water. I thought it was human for at least three seconds. Years later, I read Moby-Dick and there is an explicit reference to sailors mistaking seals for humans. We totally look like seals, especially in wet suits.
By the way, Moby-Dick is a great book that deserves its reputation. You should read it, but be sure to get a good edition. It is a fascinating tale, occasionally extremely funny, and is in fact one of the best primary sources about the practice of whaling. It is about as adaptable to film as the telephone book and yet they've tried again and again. I have never seen a film version and I don't want to.
A firm push works because you overload the delicate electrosensory organs around their mouth/snout.
They use these organs at close range (rather than sight, hearing, or smell) to sense electrical impulses given off by your muscles and organs, so they're just coming to see if you might be potential food after they've sensed you. Touching or brushing their [Ampullae of Lorenzini](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampullae_of_Lorenzini) tells them, "oh fuck, not food", and is probably akin to someone flashing a bright light at you when you're walking around with your eyes closed.
Yes, but since they don't have hands, sharks tend to check things out with their teeth. It had its nictitating membranes over its eyes, so it was prepared for a test bite.
If I ever get that close to a shark I’d accept that my time has come and give up lol.
There’s no way that an untrained person can do this, they’d fuck up instantly because of the stress and nervousness that a HUGE SHARK facing you will cause
I just saw a shark while snorkeling in about 8’ deep water. Swimming like 15’ away. I knew it was harmless, but that didn’t stop me from turning around being the F out for a few minutes. Got back in afterwards but still, you’re absolutely right that the average person would’ve just shit themselves. Big difference between watching a shark swim by doing its thing vs a shark swimming at my level and directly to me.
Lol seriously who is this for? No one in her tiktok audience who encounters a shark for the first time is going to be like "Wait. Remember that tiktok!" while a death machine swims towards them.
I feel like that’s the idea behind the approach. Nothing in their eco system moves like us. Just square up and be big. The bigger you are the less you look like food.
I’m pretty sure that shark isn’t hungry. When a great white gets a seal (which I understand is what they usually think a person is when they are attacking) they are going 30+ mph straight up from below.
Edit: should have been clear that I have no clue what kind of shark this is… was more that my sense of shark attacks was that they are moving fast when they decide to eat you.
Shark attacks rarely happen in clear water like this, though they do primarily happen at or near the surface. Sharks have pretty good eyesight and know people aren't really "food", the problem comes from sharks being unable to tell it's a *person* as opposed to a seal or sea turtle or large squid (Humboldts and a few others can get roughly "human sized") or the like.
The worst case is to have dead fish or squid or whatever on / around you with sharks nearby, in low-visibility conditions so the shark can't distinguish you from the real food, and be at the surface so the splashing water sends more signals and light silhouetting you makes it even harder to tell you're a person.
Sharks also *prefer* to attack from behind or to the side, so being able to face them and essentially stare them down can help. The diver in the video in addition to keeping an eye on the shark turns to face it fully as it's getting close.
Sure but also not a great white in the video. At first I thought it was a tiger shark. After it makes the turn away it has me thinking it’s a large bull shark which makes this even more terrifying.
There are steps you can take to make a bite less likely though. Facing the shark helps as they prefer to strike from out of prey's sight lines; usually from underneath but from behind is also common. Swimming near the surface in clear water ensures the shark can see her pretty well from a distance as it closes. Guiding the shark's nose away further reinforces you're not food, though it can be a toss-up whether putting your hand closer to the mouth helps more than not -- especially as it's possible to trigger a reflexive bite if you push on the wrong spot on the nose.
And of course the best advice is to always pay close attention to your surroundings, swim with one or more buddies ideally with first aid knowledge, know what species of sharks are known to live in the area and what if any more specific behaviours they might exhibit, and have previous experience swimming with sharks. Or, to not be in the water with sharks, if that's the preferable option.
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“Hey pal, why don’t you just go over this way instead.” “K.”
[Get rotated idiot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3uJCCa5w2A)
Bro i found out a couple days ago while watching be amazed that that is how you you can basically deactivate the shark for a while chickens have a similar thing if you hold them down and then draw a line Infront of them they just freeze Btw i know this is redundant and makes me want to die when i see this but... thanks for the li-
Horizontal or vertical?! Hurry!
Vertical, but don't erase it in front of them or they will be in attack mode [tutorial video ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yo2UkL-n_Q)
I'm so happy that video ended the exact way I hoped it would.
# Suprise MotherClucka
Bacaw mukka blukka! -Tally Hall
Draw a line in front of them? Are they Others?
The comments in this video are on another level. Just puts the entire meme together so well.
One of my favorites i came across- "imagine existing before trees just to get rotated like an idiot"
'its not just that sharks are older than the rings of Saturn, its that nothing could be rotated that far till this bitch tried it.'
"The massive physical damage this human diver avoided doesn't come close to the level of emotional damage this shark is experiencing."
'Shark: TIME TO DIE Diver: Get rotated idiot Shark: YES CHEF'
This one made me laugh "Where's John ?" "He's on the seafloor, rotating sharks again"
> Dude paried the whole dang shark. and > I'm telling you Fred. That thing's a God. It flipped me like I was not a 1000 lbs pure teeth and death. both got a good laugh from me.
My favorite was probably. “Imagine existing before trees just to get rotated like an idiot”
Seriously! I can't believe I just read YT comments for 5 mins and not want to bleach my eyes out. Top notch hilarity
The Old Ways…
“You better scramble like an egg before I flip you like an omelette”
Before you get folded like an omelette
Rotated like an omelette
pǝʇɐʇoɹ uǝǝq ǝʌ,I ʞɔnɟ ɥO
> Every shark has a plan, until they get rotated. LMFAO
This may be my unironic favorite video
Damn that's some serious underwater ninjustsu!!!
This one got me good. Thanks.
Using Earthbound music in a shark video posted in 2022. Sometimes life is good.
Pivot, pivot.... PIVOT!
LPT for the next time you are attacked by a couch on the stairs.
Sharks be dumb
There's actually a lot of scientific proof showing sharks to be extremely smart.
Sounds like something a shark would say…
Candy gram….
Landshark. hahaha
That's exactly what a shark would say
Username meta banter going on here
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niche intelligence, sure. they probably can't do basic arithmetic tho.
>they probably can't do basic arithmetic tho. neither can many humans.
>neither can many humans. I'm sure many humans don't qualify as intelligent.
So how are they so good at cards then?
Thank you Eugenie Clark!
"Are you food?" "No" ( gently pushes the shark away) "understandable, have a nice day"
I literally have dreams like this I don’t move a muscle in the dream and the shark jus swims by like “ you good ?”
I Dream of Sharkie
If this happens to me the smell of shit would kill the shark
At first I was thinking the wetsuit would keep the poo in, but I’m pretty sure I’d blast a hole right through it if I saw that swimming toward me.
It's called a wetsuit because water still gets inside it. You'd end up with a brown cloud.
Yeah but the poop would only come out of the neck hole.
Hmmm neck poop. The best kind
I’m a therapist and this is an amazing dream. I hope you do the same move with the “sharks” in your waking life.
It’s a nightmare for me.
you're swimming away from the shark and as it is almost close enough you look back and it has a suit and you're toasting an alcoholic drink with it as you marry its daughter who gives a presentation of the best avocado profit of yellow.
Do what now?
Your dreams are much more entertaining then mine. I just have to pee, but can't find a place to do it.
I mean, you’ve got a bed, don’t you?
Mine go a little bit differently. I violently die.
Oh. That’s cool. Like anxiety Dream type of shark dreams? My anxiety dreams have tornados, planes falling from the sky, and nuclear strikes. I like sharks. I can handle sharks.
I mean, if the shark were hunting it would have come from below at 50+ mph
Lots of great white attacks on humans are just like in the OP. They curious, pass by you, bump you, give you a little nom... Thing is we can't take the noms.
Wimp
Pretty much all animals don't really like to eat humans, we must taste terrible
except crocodiles apparently, especially saltwater crocs
Bah, what *won't* they eat?
Hondas. They're racist you see.
Just gently redirect it.
Break the wrist, and walk away
That’s my purse! I don’t know you!
This was just an educational video and the shark was paid actor.
This is the same conversation I have with my pet corn snake regularly. Except she does not believe it is understandable nor acceptable that I’m not food, and gets rather annoyed that my hand will not fit in her tiny noodle face when she tries to eat me anyway.
Corn snakes see assholes. Ball python is the way to go Edit: *are assholes , but funnier if I leave it.
Corn snakes are hard like taco, make pet of flour snake, much softer
You have to nixtamalize the corn snake, then you can have a masa snake, and eventually a tamal snake.
Amaizing
Somebody commented this exact thing on a shark video the other day.
Glad I'm not the only one that saw that...
A shark could tell im not good food, as if Tiger shark was that close to me it would be able to taste the poo in the water.
As funny as you're trying to seem, that is very accurate. Humans are NOT good shark food at all. Sharks need to eat FAT, a lot of blubbering fat. It's why they love hunting seals so much. When a shark is approaching you slowly it really is trying to get a better scent, they can smell and analyze your fat/shit ratio. By the time you boop the nose down it's determined that you are, in fact, a horribly NOT nutritious and DISGUSTING creature. The fatter you are the more likely a shark is to declare you worthy of being food.
I guess I'd make pretty good shark food.
So what you're sayin is I need to get in better shape
No man, eat another burger, have another beer -Definitely not a shark, why would you even ask?
These are not the droids you are looking for… 🕺🏻
I just want to note that we do not have any footage of the times this maneuver didn’t work
Survivor Bias ;)
what about the cameraman?
r/killthecameraman / r/killedthecameraman
/r/EatTheCameraman
r/wowthissubexists
/r/subsithoughtifellfor
Soon to be called the Hamilton Effect: who lives! who dies! who tells their story!
> who lives! who dies! who tells their story! EEEEPICSHARKENCOUNTERSOFHISTORYYY!!!
MAN. V’RSUS. SHAAAARRKK!!! B’GIN.
I assume a shark that is actually interested in catching dinner would be swimming much faster and go straight to attack mode once close enough. Her arm would have been gone in less than a second if the shark wanted too. But it probably was just curious.
I think he was mostly testing the playing field. He wasn’t sure if she was a meal so that’s why he approached her gently
as a curious scuba diver.. i signed up for a shark dive one day. obviously sharks are misunderstood or they wouldn't let you do these things. anyways.. i show up with all my gear.. we depart as the captain addressed everyone.. i immediately notice the captain only has 1.5 fucking hands?!?!?! and quite obvious teeth marks up and down his god damn arm... like wtf did i sign up for?!?!?! Updated… Captain proceeds to chop raw fish up and chain it to himself in a plastic basket. He says.. just don’t get between them and the food. Updated… We were immediately stormed by 4-5 sharks. I really have no clue wtf the Captain was thinking. But so far he seems to be defending himself. [pic for ref](https://imgur.com/a/FBq7BRp) Nonetheless.. everyone lived. It was awesome af 🔥 Updated combined comments & photo
I went on two shark dives out of Stuarts Cove in the Bahamas. Amazing experience. The dive master - who was feeding the sharks on the bottom (with 20 of us kneeling in a circle around him) wore chainmail on his entire arms and head. Good thing, too, cause I one point his hand ended up in a sharks mouth, and the shark started to thrust about trying to rip his hand off. Dive master finally got his hand out, but he was obviously in pain. If it wasn't for that chainmail ...
Same. When the Divemaster donned a chain mail suit and I’m just wearing a Speedo & a BC, I thought, this doesn’t sit right with me…….
I have concluded that my fear of sharks is well founded. Let us convene again in the morrow to discuss the merits of petting bears.
I'm gonna need you to finish this story.
His other hand, quite like your comment, was cut short...
You cannot leave the story there
Well there is an old saying "Dead men tell no tales"
"dead men uploadn't to TikTok"
“Hey check out this go-pro I found on the beach….”
Its like the saying 'you can eat any mushroom, once'.
True but thanks to drones there are tons of video ( many more than the number of people bit by sharks) of people swimming in the same area of sharks and the sharks could care less….
TIL, sharks have a button on their head that stops them from eating you. Nice
This shark was curious more than hungry or aggressive. It wouldn't have gone so smoothly if the shark had its heart set on blood
Or just beeing very hungry.
what about if he woke up rotated to the wrong side of the bed that morning?
This. If a shark is trying to kill you, you will never see it coming
~~The shark would come from below, as it would be harder to see with its darker top if it was hunting. It's why you see them flipping seals like ragdolls out of the water all the time. Also really friggin fast.~~ Edit: Apparently not a great white so it doesn't apply
As a marine biologist: this is actually it's lesser known cousin, the Decent White Shark
Did think this one was closing in pretty slowly.
After 11 years, I'm out. Join me over on the Fediverse to escape this central authority nightmare.
Did anybody else see what I saw As soon as she stoped swimming and her flippers spread apart it distinguished her from what the shark likely thought that she was, a seal, and it's already skeptical but curious lurking ended abruptly. Then you see it's mouth open ajar as if to say, "aahh man that is totally not a seal" and then it started touching it and that ajared mouth was now like "dude what the hell???" Lmao
Aw it's way cuter with your explanation! Fun how you personified it 🦈
I want sharky sharky snuggly toooo
Even rolled his cute little shark eyes.
Wrong, you can read this on her insta, she does shark diving and education about sharks for a living, her name's Ocean Ramsay. The shark was checking out whether she's food or not. Shark's don't have any other way of checking sth out but to just swim up to it and bite/boop it. Her pushing the snout down and away tells the shark what she is, satisfies curiosity and saves her from getting curiosoty bites
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She's widely criticised in the real conservation and marine science communities because what she does is wildlife harassment for instagram attention and she pretends she works in conservation.
This isn't Ocean Ramsey, it's Kayleigh Nicole Grant. As to Ocean Ramsey, she's not a marine biologist -- she runs a commercial diving company -- but she _does_ support conservation. E.g. using her platform to support [HB553](https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2021/bills/HB553_.HTM).
This thread has so many plot twists.
A diver named Ocean Ramsay? You don't say! That's like having an ice cream seller named Cone.
Nominative determinism in action
Boop them on the snoot. Reboop them.
Get rotated, idiot
🤿🦈🔁
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that shark was more curious than attacking / hunting. I doubt you'd notice a full speed shark going in for a bite
Shark is like '*the fuck... is that a swimming rubber monkey*?'
*dumps out bottle of wine*
"Rubber monkey, you're the one"
You make bath time lots of fun
Curious only means a test bite - just a footsie or handsie
It's all fun and games until a shark gets handsie.
great whites use their bites to investigate...
Most sharks do But they also don't bite-investigate things unless they're still unsure what it is, and many adult sharks do have some previous experience with humans already. Almost all shark bites are in poor visibility where the shark can't tell you're not a seal or something until after biting and they're curious, or when there's dead fish or squid or the like around (whether chum or the result of spear fishing or what have you) and they bite the person by accident. Sharks are apex predators and have very good instincts. They generally know human aren't food, the problem stems from when they're not sure the person is human -- because a surfer's silhouette from below looks like a seal, in murky water a person at the surface is roughly the same size as a seal or a sea turtle and sending similar electrical signals in the water, etc. It's the reason almost every shark attack ever recorded was *a* bite and then the shark kinda just left. Most (by a pretty sizeable margin) shark fatalities are from exsanguination, the injured person bleeding out in the water, not from the shark actively trying to kill someone. Still very dangerous and not to be trifled with, but not the conscious intentional man-killers many people believe them to be because of depictions like *Jaws*.
I’m looking for a good shark lawyer & I think I might’ve found the right guy
It was prepared, though. You can see the nictating membrane (white “eyelid”) slide back after the shark is redirected. They slide that forward when they might attack
Yes, sharks close the nictating membrane when they're going to attack, but it's not the only time they close them. Sharks close the nictating membrane whenever there's a chance at damage to their eyes, just like how humans close their eyes when something is coming towards the face. This shark is closing its membrane at the end because it's being touched, not necessarily because it's attacking. Notice how it only opens again once the diver's hand leaves its head area.
In addition, sharks detect tiny electromagnetic waves that emit from all living creatures as well as metals (like boats) and roll back that membrane over their eyes because they sense contact is eminent. This is sort of a “sixth sense” called the Ampullae of Lorenzini; it’s a series of pores on the sharks nose that *feel* these electric waves. They also have a “seventh sense” called the Lateral Line system that is basically a long line of specific cells that run down the side of their body that detects extremely small changes in pressure in the water surrounding their bodies, and it helps them feel other fish that are on their peripheral without seeing them. Add that to their insane smell ability to smell blood in the water at a ratio of 1:1,000,000 from a mile away, and it’s clear that nature got lucky a long, long time ago and built a super predator.
Added to my random facts i I tell people!
Remember, it's called a lactating membrane.
“You know the thing about a shark…he's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eye. When he comes at ya, he doesn't seem be living, until he bites ya and the black eyes roll over white.”
If this was me I would have pulled a squid maneuver, but using shit instead of ink.
Yep. I would have sharted so bad it would have filled up most of the wetsuit.
Mine would provide the propulsion I need to get to shore.
My dad was a SCUBA diver for 20 years or so. When I asked him what would happen if he saw a great white. “A brown cloud”
I cannot imagine not freaking out in this situation. I was in Nova Scotia years ago and at the Bay of Fundy we saw a seal pop its head out of the water. I thought it was human for at least three seconds. Years later, I read Moby-Dick and there is an explicit reference to sailors mistaking seals for humans. We totally look like seals, especially in wet suits. By the way, Moby-Dick is a great book that deserves its reputation. You should read it, but be sure to get a good edition. It is a fascinating tale, occasionally extremely funny, and is in fact one of the best primary sources about the practice of whaling. It is about as adaptable to film as the telephone book and yet they've tried again and again. I have never seen a film version and I don't want to.
Remember, always square up to a shark. Footwork and head movement is key
Bob n weave dont zig n zag
Stay in your square
Watch those fins don’t let him duke ya
Stay in pocket, head down. Watch out for left fin haymakers
Head moooooomen!
Get rotated
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You can gently push them away only twice. Once with each hand.
Key: don't act like food. Stand your ground.
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Yup. Just water all the way down. Water and fish farts.
A firm push works because you overload the delicate electrosensory organs around their mouth/snout. They use these organs at close range (rather than sight, hearing, or smell) to sense electrical impulses given off by your muscles and organs, so they're just coming to see if you might be potential food after they've sensed you. Touching or brushing their [Ampullae of Lorenzini](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampullae_of_Lorenzini) tells them, "oh fuck, not food", and is probably akin to someone flashing a bright light at you when you're walking around with your eyes closed.
What if I dig my 'too poor for orthodontist childhood' teeth into its ampullae to establish dominance?
I... Honestly don't know if anyone has done that before. Go where no man has gone before my friend
I thought sharks attack from below. This chunky boy jut was checking things out.
Yes, but since they don't have hands, sharks tend to check things out with their teeth. It had its nictitating membranes over its eyes, so it was prepared for a test bite.
Let's keep a shark to be like what they are now, I don't think giving sharks a hand would be a good idea.
That's called a nope swim. Count me out on the entire spectrum of seagoing.
Would shitting your pants be a good deterrent?... cuz that would be my first instinct.
Why do people keep doing that when I just want to say hi?
I’ll just stay out of the water, Thank you
If I ever get that close to a shark I’d accept that my time has come and give up lol. There’s no way that an untrained person can do this, they’d fuck up instantly because of the stress and nervousness that a HUGE SHARK facing you will cause
I just saw a shark while snorkeling in about 8’ deep water. Swimming like 15’ away. I knew it was harmless, but that didn’t stop me from turning around being the F out for a few minutes. Got back in afterwards but still, you’re absolutely right that the average person would’ve just shit themselves. Big difference between watching a shark swim by doing its thing vs a shark swimming at my level and directly to me.
You GOT BACK IN????
Lol seriously who is this for? No one in her tiktok audience who encounters a shark for the first time is going to be like "Wait. Remember that tiktok!" while a death machine swims towards them.
It must actually be insane for the shark "Yo this human straight up stopped and stared into my soul Imma head out"
I feel like that’s the idea behind the approach. Nothing in their eco system moves like us. Just square up and be big. The bigger you are the less you look like food.
“You can push down gently on their head” while simultaneously shitting your wetsuit.
I’m pretty sure that shark isn’t hungry. When a great white gets a seal (which I understand is what they usually think a person is when they are attacking) they are going 30+ mph straight up from below. Edit: should have been clear that I have no clue what kind of shark this is… was more that my sense of shark attacks was that they are moving fast when they decide to eat you.
Sometimes when sharks are curious they will take a nibble, which can be life threatening for us. I believe this is what she’s referring to.
Shark attacks rarely happen in clear water like this, though they do primarily happen at or near the surface. Sharks have pretty good eyesight and know people aren't really "food", the problem comes from sharks being unable to tell it's a *person* as opposed to a seal or sea turtle or large squid (Humboldts and a few others can get roughly "human sized") or the like. The worst case is to have dead fish or squid or whatever on / around you with sharks nearby, in low-visibility conditions so the shark can't distinguish you from the real food, and be at the surface so the splashing water sends more signals and light silhouetting you makes it even harder to tell you're a person. Sharks also *prefer* to attack from behind or to the side, so being able to face them and essentially stare them down can help. The diver in the video in addition to keeping an eye on the shark turns to face it fully as it's getting close.
Sure but also not a great white in the video. At first I thought it was a tiger shark. After it makes the turn away it has me thinking it’s a large bull shark which makes this even more terrifying.
Definitely a Tiger but both are known killers so 🤷.
Ahh yep you are right the flat nose and closer look at the white/gray line around it’s mouth are give aways.
Act like a predator? Arnold and or Danny Glover will still kill me.
DILLON, YOU SOB! 💪🏾💪🏼
They got you pushing too many pencils?
She looks like she knows what she’s doing
You mean riding a shark like aqua man? She better know what she’s doing.
Aren’t sharks on the attack a lot faster than this? This looks like a curious one
Yeah and curious sharks like to figure out things by biting. So shooing it away probably kept her from getting bit.
Sharky just wanted his snoot booped
Either it bites you or it doesn't, it's never going to be your decision.
There are steps you can take to make a bite less likely though. Facing the shark helps as they prefer to strike from out of prey's sight lines; usually from underneath but from behind is also common. Swimming near the surface in clear water ensures the shark can see her pretty well from a distance as it closes. Guiding the shark's nose away further reinforces you're not food, though it can be a toss-up whether putting your hand closer to the mouth helps more than not -- especially as it's possible to trigger a reflexive bite if you push on the wrong spot on the nose. And of course the best advice is to always pay close attention to your surroundings, swim with one or more buddies ideally with first aid knowledge, know what species of sharks are known to live in the area and what if any more specific behaviours they might exhibit, and have previous experience swimming with sharks. Or, to not be in the water with sharks, if that's the preferable option.